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THE 



SANITARY COMMISSION 
B.ULLETIN. /^^^^^^ 



No. 37. 



PHILADELPHIA, MAY 1, 1865. 



No. 37. 



The Sanitary Commission Bulletin is pnbuyied on the first and fiftenith of every month ^ and as 
it has a circulation, gratuitous or other, of above 15,000 copies, it offers an unusually valuable medium for 
advertising. 

All communications must be addressed to the Editor, at the office, 1307 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and 
must be authenticated by the names and addresses of the writers. 

As the continuance of the publication of the Bulletin m uncen-tain, depending on that of the war, and on 
the resources of the U. S. Sanitary Commission — the Standing Committee feels a certain degree of reluctance 
to solicit subscriptions for it — and thereby to pledge the Commission to its issue for a definite period. 

The Committee understand, however, thai some of their friends to whom it is now sent gratuitously, ex- 
press a wish to pay for it, and they therefore give notice that the sum of two dollars, remitted to the 
Treasurer, (G. T. Strong, 68 Wall street. New York, or No 1307 Chestnut street, Philadelphia,) will 
secure its being sent to such contributor during the remainder of the current year, unless its publication be 
sooner discontinued. 



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For the Sanitary Cominissioa Bulletin. 
STAEVED TO DEA.TH ! 

Suggested by the remark of a mother, one of whope sons 
had died o( slarviition in a rebel prison ; "1 hardly expect- 
ed my boys would return to me unharmed, but I never 
dreamed one would be starved to death." 

BV MINNIE MINTWOOD. 

Above me, soft'ning April skies; 

And all around, the tender grass, 
With slight green arms that eager rise 

To catch the sunbeams as they pass; 
And ju^t below, the rippling brook, 

With pulses throbbing low and deep, 
While birds and flowers and mossy nook. 

All mem'ries of my darling keep. 

Within, upon my pictured wall, 

One brow is fairer than the rest; 
Ah, me! it seems at yester'a call, 

Uis head was pillowed on my breast. 
His every curl some gold had caught, 

The sweets of flowers were in liis breath; 
In all my life he was inwrought. 

And now, to know he starved to death! 

That he was brave you well may know. 

No heart more loyal, true and leal, 
Among the first of all to go 

And bare his breast to rebel .steel. 
And when be in his armor stood, 

The bravest of them all, one saith : 
"Virginia's soil may drink his lilood." 

But none, "your boy will utane to death!" 

Full well I knew 'mid shot and shell* 

And clash of sabres he would stand ; 
But lie, who doeth all things well, 

]\Iight shield him with His loving hand. 
But if he fell ! I could not bear 

Within my heart a place for this ! 
To see no more his forehead fair, 

Or nevermore his lips to kiss. 

Vol. I. No. 37 73 



Still, should it be my woman's part 

To see my bliss in ruins lie. 
For my loved country, e'en my heart 

Could bear for Mm to die, 
If ha, as patriot.^, should fall 

With victory flashing in his eye, 
His spirit leaping at the call 

To join the ranks of souls on high. 

For every mine must yield its gold, 

From every hearth some incense rise, 
I gave the be.<t of all my fold — 

Jly boy — a countrj'-sacrifice ! 
But, Uod! I never thought to know,. 

\yilh hunger weakening every breath. 
By .-squalid want and torture slow, 

^fy boy would ever starve to death! 

Hilldale Farm, near Ludlow ville,- 

Tompkins County, New York, April, 186.5. 



LETTER FROM NEWBERN, N. C. 
BY J. W. PAGE, M.D. 

March 19, 1805. 

I encio.se to you some of the notes re- 
ceived from my brotber, in chnrge of the 
Relief Corps at the front, and dated respect- 
ively the 11th, Uth, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 
18th. Several of these should have gone 
forward with the lists of wounded 1 have 
already forwarded ; but the early hour and 
hurry of my departure for Moorchcud, on 
the day of my last comrauuication, occa- 
sioned their oversight, and I was surprised 
to find them still lying on my table. 

These notes, jotted down on the field, 
tell in their style, as well as in their oarra- 



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live, the yeoman service which our Relief 
Corps has rendered thus far in a campaign 
in -which, perhaps more than in any other 
of the war, not only the comfort, but the 
salvation, of our sick and wounded depended 
on the extraneous Relief of the Sanitary 
Commission at the rlylil time and the riglit 
place. The railroad construction has pro- 
gressed pari iJassn with the army, but five 
or seven miles in the rear. Our chief sup- 
ply tent was at the terminus of the railroad 
in season to receive, and shelter, and pro- 
vide for the first instalment of the wounded 
from the battle field; while our Relief 
a<i:cuts were extending the needed relief to 
the field hospitals along our exteuded battle 
line. The reconstruction of the railroad, 
employing an army of two thousand con- 
structionists, building wharves and depots, 
kying tracks and transporting material 
therefor, has been going on at the same 
time with the trimsportation of thirty thou- 
sand troops, with all the impedimenia of 
modern warfare, directly into the enemy's 
country, equipped and appointed for an im- 
mediate battle with an army of the enemy 
equal in numbers. Yet all this herculean 
work has been done with four wheezy en- 
gines and a correspondingly iusufiicieut pro- 
vision of truck and box cars. I question 
whether such a brilliant feat of railroading, 
all things considered, has ever been accom- 
plished since the commencement of this 
war, of which railroading has been such a 
novel and important military element. It 
is a railroad victory which adds as much 
lustre to the genius and energy of Colonel 
Wright and Mr. Van ])yne, as does the 
battle of Kinston to the mditary reputation 
of our successful generals. These allusions 
would be episodical, were they not intended 
to draw your attention to the long intervals 
which must necessarily happen between the 
arrivals of trains on a road so illy provided 
with rolling stock, and so enormously taxed 
beyond its reasonable capacity. A long 
line of railroad, constantly advancing its 
terminus into a wild and swampy country, 
where our sick and wounded must meet it 
at unheralded hours, and await on the damp 
ijround. through rain and shine, or enve- 
loped in the swamp fogs of the chilly nights, 
with only the little covering and scanty 
comforts that could be brouglit for six miles 
over horrible roads, in overloaded ambu- 
lances, Irom destitute field hospitals and 
await, through these cheerless hours, the 
unfrequent trains. We have had floods of 



rain ; and an ambulance travelling over the 
deeply gullied roads would tax the enau- 
rance oi well men. You can imagine, then, 
the condition of our sick and wounded after 
six miles of such rough jolting; and you 
can imagine, perhaps better than I can de- 
scribe, the full measure of their satisfaction, 
when, instead of being dumped on the cold, 
wet ground, tq await, chilled and hungry, 
the arrival of th^cars, they found, ready for 
their reception, our spacious tents, embla- 
zoned in front, so «that "he that runs may 
read," with the full name of our glorious 
old Commission, and provided within with 
•every comfort for the outer and the inner 
man. Soft beds of quilts, laid on clean 
straw — warm blankets — rich soups, with 
Boston crackers — hot coffee and tea, gentle 
attendance and good cheer, and the assurance 
of the same comforts being transferred to 
the cars for their transportation to Newbern. 
The luxury of being the instrument in af- 
fording such relief was new to my brother, 
and to some of the improvised corps of as- 
sistants, and stimulated them to exertions 
too strained and continuous for their own 
safety ; so that I have relieved them in a 
measure, by forwarding, in charge of sup- 
plies, the volunteer but temporary aid of 
several young gentlemen in the Department, 
whose truthful natures and warm sympa- 
thies I had learned by previous acquaint- 
ance to appreciate. The number and cha- 
racter of these offers from young men long 
associated with this Department in military 
and civil positions, and their proffered wil- 
lingness to serve the Commission at the 
front, at the very time when the drizzling 
spring rains and the booming of the distant 
cannon told them plainly that such a cam- 
paign was no child's play, have illustrated, 
with gratifying clearness, the deep hold 
which the Sanitary Commission has already 
gained on the affections of the generous 
youths of our land, whose characters are 
being moulded on the gigantic occurrences 
now transpiring, and forming the history of 
their country. I had anticipated the usual 
proffer of battle-field aid from " our friends 
over the way" of the Christian Commission, 
as in days gone by. I had received in- 
structions, to accept such proffered aid on 
the field, and to supply and treat the dele- 
gates as our own Relief agents ; and my ex- 
perience in South Carolina, and in previous 
campaigns in this Department, had led me 
to place a high estimate on the value of 
such relief aid; and I had instructed my 



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brother, if such relief was proferred to ac- 
cept and treat it in accordance with the es- 
timate I had entertained of its value. No 
proifer, however, was made by the delegates 
of the Christian Commission, though several 
of them were here, and several new ones 
appeared on the ground about the time and 
since our active campaign began. I under- 
stand from one of their number, that seve- 
ral of the new ones left, during the week of 
the fight, for other loealities, as Wilmington 
and Plymouth, c^'c. None of them, how- 
ever, were on the field, nor have been to 
the front ; unless I except a quasi dele- 
gate, who appeared after the fight, penny- 
a-lining items for the local newspaper. This 
avoidance of the field, at the time of active 
operations, and when our soldiers are 
breasting the deadly fire of the enemy, leads 
me to suppose there may have been some 
change in the programme of the Christian 
Commission, of which, from my long ab- 
sence from our northern centres of action, I 
have not been made aware. From pre- 
vious experience, I had reckoned on their 
co-operation, and its failure compelled me, 
at a late hour, to improvise a supplementary 
llelief corps from the ardent and generous 
materials I have previously alluded to. My 
previous acquaintance with the self-denial 
and usefulness of the delegates of the Chris- 
tian Commission at such times as these, would 
lead me to think any such fundamental 
change in the objects of their mission an 
unfortunate one, as I cannot see any corre- 
sponding compensation to the service. 

I returned from the front on Wednesday, 
the 15th, leaving our Sanitary depot and 
corps at Dow's Station, then the terminus 
of the railroad, about 8 miles from Kiuston, 
and from which point our stores radiated to 
the different hospitals and encampments of 
our large army. The corps and division 
wagons were constantly arriving at and de- 
parting from that point with army stores, 
and every facility for transportation was 
furnished us. From the moment of the 
arrival of our stores and the establishment 
of the Sanitary depot where the hospital 
trains must meet the terminus of the rail- 
road, an order was issued from the head- 
quarters of General Palmer to the Quarter- 
masters of his division to furnish all the 
transportation we might need in forward- 
ing our relief to any portion of the field. 
Our Depot has kept pace with the rail- 
road. It has been a moving ho.''pital, meet- 
ing the sick and wounded always at the 



point where the long weary hours of de- 
tention would have been painful and dreary 
but for the comforts provided for them by 
the agents of our Commission there. The 
long list of wounded which I have for- 
warded you were all the recipients of our 
care at that point, and their railroad wants 
provided for until they should arrive at the 
doors of the general hospital in Newborn. 

I spent one day in visiting the Division 
headquarters along the extensive line of 
our new position, and the hospitals in the 
field, witnessing the elation of our gallant 
troops, and the burial of a multitude of rebel 
hopes. 

The earthworks thrown up by our troops 
under fire, and begun with the use of tin 
cups and shingles, instead of the pick-axe 
and spade, are a wonderful monument of the 
daring and efiicicncy of our veteran troops. 
Though the work of a couple of hours, they 
are as extensive and strong as the original 
defences of Newborn, on which the rebels 
had labored for weeks. This was especially 
observant on the right of our line, in front 
of the old 9th New Jersey, of Burnside 
fame, and the lo2d New York, whose valor 
has so often and so stubbornly held our 
outposts against the assaults of the enemy. 
These regiments, with the rest of the divi- 
sion of Grcneral Palmer, held the extreme 
right of our line, which the enemy assailed 
vigorously on the first day's fight, with 
their heavy artillery in exact range of the 
Division Headquarters, but relinquished 
the attack for the desperate onset they made 
on the left, in which they were at last so 
severely punished. 

Our sanitary stores had reached the Di- 
vision in quantity, and were stacked under 
guard. Mr. Perry, our Kelief Agent, did 
some hard horse-back riding, and severe and 
prolonged labors, in conducting our wagons 
over miles of muddy and deeply gullied and 
rough corduroy roads. I saw the captains of 
two cou)panies of cavalry, long celebrated in 
this Department for their vigor and daring, 
now, when under orders to move forward, 
appeal to these stores for vegetables for 
their men, and themselves count out the 
onions, that they might be sure every man 
should get one. These vegetables are more 
prized at such a time by these men than 
would be the choicest tropical fruits. 

On the advance of the army from the 
battle field, I accompanied it to Kinstou, 
passing one night at the new encampment 
opposite the town, and in the morning vi.sitr- 



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ing the town itself. The rebel wurks on 
both sides of the river are of the strongest 
description of earth works, and well manned 
would have presented a formidable obstacle 
to our advance; but our stout tightiug in 
front, and the ^Qixx of danger in their rear, 
compelled them to abandon these works. 

I returued to Newbern via " Dover Sta- 
tion," to which point our depot had ad- 
vanced, and after a splashing ride ) of ten 
miles on horseback, as many more by cars, 
three miles on foot, and five on a hand-car, 
arrived here at dusk. Crowds of soldiers 
have been passing up to the front, and every- 
thing indicates operations on a large scale. 
I received a telegram from Dr. Agnew on 
my return, and took the first train for More- 
head City, where -I met him on the trans- 
port steamer Chase, with a full cargo of 
stores for the Commission. The limited 
capacity of the railroad, already overtaxed, 
forbade the landing of stores at the wharf. 
Dr. Aenew placed such stores as we needed 
here on board a provisionary schooner, some 
four or live hundred barrels in bulk, which 
I have made arrangements to transport 
to Newbern by water. The next day Dr. 
Agnew took the rest of the steamer's cargo 
to Wilmington, for the relief of our liberated 
Union prisoners, and on hisn-eturn will dis- 
charge what may remain at Morehead for 
the campaign on this line. 

I was at Wilminkiton the day after its 
capture, having run down with Generals 
Palmer and Carter and staff's; I met the 
Sanitary Agent, Mr. Foster, there, preparing 
for a depot of reception, but at the time 
destitute of supplies. I should have advised 
the sending what few stores could then have 
been spared from this point, had not Mr. 
Foster informed nie that he had eleven days 
before, made full requisitions on the central 
depot at New York, and was daily expect- 
ing ample stores. The condition of such of 
our returned prisoners as I then saw was 
pitiable beyond expression, and the evidences 
of the barbarity of the rebel leaders was 
most damnable. The filth, squalor, emaci- 
ation, idiocy, and insanity of those who sur- 
vived their infernal treatment, prepared me 
to witness the sight of the charred remains 
of those whom the rebels buined on evacua- 
ting the city ; telling the poor, bed-ridden 
victims of their cruelty " if they would not 
get out and follow their army, they would 
scorch them out," and carried out their 
devilish threat by setting fire to one end of 
the buildiu"- ! 



!. Com. IX TUE ~j 
'E Creek, N C, [■ 
11, 1865. j 



Headquautfus U S. San. Com. ix tue 
Field, six miles fkom Cove 
3Iarch 

I have just returned from a visit to the 
Division Hospital at the front. I started 
in advance of an arujy wagon, furuished me 
by the Chief Quartermaster, which I loaded 
with stores for the front from our depot at 
this station. I arrived at the hospital, nine 
miles from this station, at about o o'clock 
this P.M. A portion of the road being 
almost impassible for man or beast, and so 
I spent a longer portion of the day on the 
road than I otherwise would ; but I met 
Dr. lliee at the hospital, and found him 
making his preparations for breaking up 
his hospital at that point, and preparing for 
a forward movement toward Kinston. I 
learned that the rebels had burnt their iron 
clad ram and the bridge across the Neuse 
river at Kinston ; also that tJiey were re- 
treating toward Goldsboro'. They retreat- 
ed fVom our front, taking only such of their 
wounded as they thought likely to survive 
their injuries, leaving the worst cases and 
the dead for our forces to bury and other- 
wise care for. On my return to camp I 
found that Mr. Perry had obtained the en- 
closed list of wounded men from the front, 
whom he had cared for and seen properly 
and comfortably provided with blankets, 
and had a rich beef soup made of the beef 
stock furnished by the Commission, and 
every one had a tin cupful before being 
placed on the cars, after which he gave each 
one a cup of hot coffee and crackers. I also 
called on my return from the front at the 
hospital at Gum Swamp, where I found 
])r. Weaver in charge, having seven wound- 
ed men from the front, and wishing for 
some relief, which was afforded him imme- 
diately, as he came to the depot, and I 
supplied his immediate wants from the 
stores of the Commission. To-night I go 
to bed for the first time since I came out 
here before two o'clock at night. 

Head Quarters U. S. San. Com., in the 
Field, 6 miles from Cove Creek, 
March 

T wrote to you yesterday morning, quite 
early, a hasty note, which I forwarded by 
Dr. Wilson, Assistant Surgeon, 123d Indi- 
ana Vols., in charge of about thirty wounded 
and some 20 sick soldiers from the front. 

I had on that day visited, in company 
with Captain Kimball, Chief Quartermaster, 
the headquarters of General Palmer, which 
is at the right of the line of defences. We 



M., IN THE ") 
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left our depot at 10 o'clock in the fore- 
noon, and arrived at headquarters about 12 
noon. We heard heav}'^ firing all the time, 
and on arriving; near, we learned that the 
rebels, under Hoke, had made a desperate 
attempt to flank the left of the line of Gen- 
eral Palmer's Division, but were repulsed 
with a severe loss in killed and wounded, 
and a few hundred prisoners, including one 
Lieutenant Colonel, and one of General 
Hoke's aid-decamps. 

While at headquarters a courrier arrived 
with a message from General Cox, com- 
manding the 1st Division of the 23d Army 
Corps, saying that couriers had arrived at 
his (Cox's) headquarters, bringing intelli- 
gence from General Couch, commanding 2d 
Division of the 2od Corps, that he was at 
that time at Beaver Dam, moving from Wil- 
mington on to Kinston. This intelligence 
was received with a hearty welcome, and 
doubled the assurance of the capture or 
annihilation of the rebel force so desperately 
struggling to break through our lines, if 
they did not retreat. 

I learned also that our loss during the 
day in killed and wounded, was not near 
as much as that of the enemy. The force 
opposed to us on our front, amounted to 
about 20,000, commanded by the rebel Gen- 
erals Hoke, D. H. Hill, and S. P. Lee, well 
known in this region from his having made 
several unsuccessful attempts to drive the 
"hated Yankees" from Newbern. Seven 
consecutive charges were made on the forti- 
fications at the right of the line, commanded 
by General Palmer. Every attack was re- 
pulsed with as much determination as it was 
made, and the rebels were obliged to re- 
treat. At the last attack a portion of one 
rebel brigade was captured by our forces, 
which will partly compensate for the loss of 
one regiment, captured by them yesterday 
. forenoon, that is as far as numbers of pris- 
oners are concerned. 

I also visited the division hospital, with 
Dr. P. B. Rice, the Division Surgeon. 1 
met here Dr. Whitney, of the 18th VV^iscon- 
sin Vols., and Drs. Whittier, 23d Mass. 
Vols., Holcomb, Surgeon, and Cowles, As- 
sistant Surgeon 15th Conn. Vols., busily at- 
tending to the wounded as fast as they were 
brought in from the field of action. 

Here I obtained from Dr. Rice a memor- 
andum of what stores he was in pressing 
need ; and as transportation is very limited 
to the front, and the roads in such a con- 
dition as to enable but about 1,200 or 1,500 



lbs of stores to be transported by one six 
mule team, I made the assortment to com- 
prise the greatest variety possible, as you 
will see by a memorandum copy of the issues 
of to-day. which I send you, as follows : — 
100 handkerchiefs, 50 towels, 120 pairs 
socks, 96 cans condensed milk, 48 lbs. fari- 
na, 40 corn starch, GO tomatoes, 60 beef- 
stock, 1 bbl. dried apples, 25 lbs. wbite 
sugar, 1 box lint, 1 bed tick, 1 bbl. old 
linen, 24 btls. whiskey, 2 bbls. crackers, 1 
bbl. onions. Captain Kimball, Chief Qaar- 
termaster of this division, has promised me 
one army wagon to-morrow morning, which 
I shall load and send forward, and see that 
they reacli their destination as soon as 
possible. 

At 10 o'clock, p M., I sent Mr. Perry with 
relief supplies to the division hospital at 
" Gum Swamp," 5 miles further up the road. 

I have thus far obtained all the names of 
the wounded sent to this station, except 
some who have been sent to the general hos- 
pital at Newbern, via the county road to 
Cove Creek, in ambulances, passing a mile 
or more at the right of this station, and at 
times when I have not been apprised of the 
fact until too late to get the names ; at any 
rate, I have sent you nearly all the names 
thus far of the wounded, to this date ; with 
the nature and region of the wound, and 
the missile with which it was inflicted. 

I have also attended to the placing these 
men on the cars, and supplying them with the 
necessary articles for their comfort during 
the transportation to Newbern general hos- 
pital ; and many have been the heartfelt ex- 
pressions of gratitude towards' the Commis- 
sion for the attention paid to them in their 
suffering. I have made long day's work 
for the time I have been here. Last night 
I was among the wounded all night, going 
to bed about 3 o'clock this morning ; so it 
has been all along. I am not unwilling to 
sacrifice my own comfort for the relief of 
our gallant boys, who have fought so bravely 
and been the unfortunate ones to stop the 
deadly bullet of the rebel minions. 

I shall write to you again to-morrow eve- 
ning, and give you all the particulars I can 
obtain of the condition of atfairs here and at 
the front. 

This morning comes out clear and cool. 
The first plea-sant day from the time that 
we established our depot at this point. I 
have called on the Quartermaster of the 1st 
Division of the 23d Army Corps, and made 
arrangements to send a load of sanitary 



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stores to Dr. Spurrier, Surgeon-in-Charge 
of that division. 

I have visited the Division Hospital, 1st 
Division, District of Beaufort, at Gum 
Swamp, and furnished them with relief from 
our stores. Dr. Weaver, the Surgeon-in- 
Charge, has since called at our depot, and 
says he shall seud all the wounded forward 
to-night to this station, to be sent to the 
general hospital at Newbern, and I have had 
made provision for tlieir accommodation 
under shelter, until they can be forwarded. 

We have heard some artillery firing in 
the direction of Kinstou, at intervals during 
the forenoon, and couriers who arrive from 
the front, say that the rebels have destroyed 
a portion of the bridge across the river at 
Kiuston, and are retreating towards Golds- 
boro', destroying the railroad as they go. 

I also learn that General Couch's Divi- 
sion of the 23d Army Corps, from Wilming- 
ton, has formed a junction with the left of 
our line, in the rear of Kinston. 

This forenoon, 260 rebel prisoners in- 
cluding one Lieutenant (^olonei, and several 
other officers, were brought here under a 
strong guard from the front, to be taken to 
Newbern by railroad. Your visit to our 
station to-day, gave you the opportunity of 
seeing the condition of affairs at our depot. 

I have to-night, at 11 o'clock, received a 
communication from Dr. Weaver, asking me 
to aid him in getting the wounded from 
Gum Swamp Station to Newbern general 
hospital ; I have seen the conductor of the 
train, and he has promised to stop a car at a 
point three miles this side of the Swamp, 
and have them taken on and forwarded. 

These wounded men, some 12 or 13 in 
all. have twice been started for this station 
in ambulances, but owing to the bad con- 
dition of the roads, were unable to proceed, 
and returned to the hospital ; but to-night 
they have come from the main road across 
a new road to the railroad, at which point 
I have made arrangements to take them on 
the cars. 

The addition of Mr. Iland to our present 
relief corps, in the field, has come just in 
the right time, as Mr. Perry and I have 
been taxed pretty severely, having been at 
work day and night for three days, and his 
arrival relieved us of a portion of the duty. 

March 13, 1 o'clock, A.M. 

The cars have just arrived from Newbern, 
heavily loaded with rations and pontoon 
bridges. I have seen the conductor, and 



made arrangements to take these men on 
the train, as they return to Newbern. At 
5 o'clock the train started down the track, 
and v/hen they arrived at our depot I sup- 
plied them with relief, and having had them 
all comfortably arranged in the cars, and 
seen them start off, properly cared for, and 
under the charge of Acting Hospital Stew- 
ard , of the 132d N. Y. Vols., I went 

to our tent and lay down for an hour or two; 
after this short rest, I procured a six. mule 
team from the quarter-master, and loaded 
it with an assortment of sanitary stores, and 
sent Mr. Perry in charge of it to the 1st 
Division, 23d Arm^ Corps, Dr. Spurrier 
Surgeon-in-Charge. He left our depot at 
11 o'clock, A.M. During the remainder of 
the day I was at the depot, making arrange- 
ments to move the tent and stores five miles 
further up the railroad, to Dover Station, 
and issuing a few minor articles of relief 
such as paper, envelopes, socks, shirts, &c., 
to some of the sick in the field relief hos- 
pital at this station. During the day I had 
some 100 letters left with me at the tent, 
to foi'wai'd by mail, and as we have no mail 
carrier at this station, will it not be possi- 
ble to make some arrangement by which we 
can have a mail-bag left with us each day, 
and forward these soldiers' letters to New- 
bern postoffice each day, as they accumulate. 
I think it will be a much needed service 
rendered by the Commission if it can be so 
arranged. 

I have this evening maxle preparations, 
and packed our stores ready to strike the 
tent for removal just as soon as we can ob- 
tain transportation, which our quartermas- 
ter at this station informs me will be to- 
night or to-morrow morning. 

Mr. Perry returned from the front at 11 
o'clock, P.M., having walked some 12 miles, 
there being no means of transportation He 
says that the division at the front will ad- 
vance to-morrow morning some five miles 
nearer to Kinston, to await the arrival of the 
pontoon train, and then cross the Neuse at 
some point near, and occupy Kiuston. 

Hkadquauters U. S. San. Com. 
IN THE Field, Doveh STATIO^f, N. 0. 
March 14, 18(35. 

I have, as you will see, by the date of 
this letter, removed our depot some three 
miles nearer to the front ; this being the 
terminus of the railroad to-day. 

I took down our tent, and with the assist- 
ance of men from the quartermaster's 
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12 o'clock, M., when the train was backed 
six miles down the track to Cove Creek to 
obtain water for the engine, which being 
rather a slow process, we were at 3 o'clock 
again under headway for our new position 
at this station, where we arrived at five 
o'clock, P.M. 

While Mr. Perry superintended the dis- 
charging of the stores from the cars, I pro- 
ceeded to find a location in which to again 
set our tent which should be convenient to 
transportation, both by railroad and wagons. 
Haviua: found a good location I had the 
tent set and the goods stowed away inside. 
Fortunately we had a fine day, and although 
it was well along into the evening, we suc- 
ceeded in storing everything at about dark. 

On my arrival at this station I found an 
ambulance train loaded with the wounded, 
sent in here this forenoon, with about eighty 
wounded soldiers from the Front Division 
Hospital 1st Div. 23d A. C. There were 
many very severely wounded cases among 
them, and as they had nothing to eat since 
morning, I immediately took a ban-el of 
crackers from the cars and distributed them 
among all. This done, I consulted the sur- 
geons in charge of them, Dr. Wilson, 123d 
Ind., and Dr. Garwood, as to what relief we 
could furnish to these men from the stores 
of the Commission. I learned from them 
that the most immediate want was blankets 
and stimulants while on the cars between 
here and Newborn, whither they were being 
taken to the General Hospital. As the men 
were placed on the cars each one was sup- 
plied with an extra blanket. I also sent 
candles, lanterns and stimulants to the sur- 
geons to use in the transportation to New- 
bern, and when the cars left the station all 
were provided for and made comfortable. 

Just before the cars left I learned that 
there were several very sick men from the 
8d Div. (Couch's) of the 23d A. C, who had 
been sent in from the front and placed in an 
old house near our quarters. I immediately 
went to the house, and there I found twenty- 
three men, lying on the floor, some withitut 
and some with blankets, withoutany attend- 
ant whatever. They told me that they were 
left there this forenoon, and some of them 
had nothing to eat or drink since they left 
their hospital this morning. I went to our 
tent, had some hot coffee prepared for them, 
and took a pailful of crackers and carried 
them to these men, also took blankets to 
cover those who had none. I found here 
one case of measles, three very sick of 



typhoid fever, two who were completely 
paralyzed and unable to even turn over 
without help, and the remainder were cases 
of remittent fever and diarrluea or rheum;i- 
tism. I had them all properly cared for ac- 
cording to my best judgment, and left them 
to sleep or rest, intending to cull at 11 o'clock 
and see them again before I went to bed, as 
I did, when I found some sleeping quietly, 
while others too sick to rest or sleep on so 
hard a bed without some medical assistance 
or medicine. I again supplied them with 
good drinking water, and fixed each one 
anew in his bed. and bade them good night, 
promising to see them early in tue morning, 
and to make arrangements to send them to 
Newberu by the first train of cars. This 
quieted their fears of being left here to take 
care of themselves; and they all thanked 
me for my attention to them, and seemed to 
feel as though they had one friend, (the San- 
itary Commission), so I heard one of them 
say. 

T went to our tent, and had just layed 
down when I heard some one call at our 
door, to know if we wei'e all asleep. 

I turned out and found it was Asssistant 
Surgeon Piatt, of the 140th Ohio Volun- 
teers, who had been detailed to come in 
from the front to attend to these poor fel- 
lows, and ship them to Ncwbern imme- 
diately. He thanked me very kindly in 
the name of his Division Surgeon for the 
attention I had paid to them, and after 
going with him again through this house 
and learning that nothing more could be 
done for them at present than I had al- 
ready done, I left him, and went to bed at 
nearly 1 o'clock on the morning of March 
15th. 

Headquartkrs U. S. San. Com. in the Field, "j 

AT Dover Station, near Kinston, >- 

March 15, 18G5. j 

This morning is clear and tine. I have 
been engaged in assorting our stores and 
arranging them in our tent. I also have 
had a rich soup made for the sick men 
spoken of in my letter of last night. 1 also 
had each man furnished with soap, towels 
and water, or had them washed, and gave 
them a clean suit of under-clothing, after 
which they all seemed to feel very much 
better, and were ready to be put on the cars 
for transportation to the General Hospital 
at Newbern. 

During the forenoon, Chaplain Bayles, 
of Itjth Kentucky Vols., in charge of the 
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these men belong, called at the tent, having 
coming in on purpose for sanitary stores, 
and on learning what I had done for these 
men, he thanked me very kindly in behalf 
of the Division Surgeon, as well as the 
whole command, saying that he did not 
know what would have become of the poor 
fellows, had they not been relieved by the 
attentions of the previous evening. He also 
expressed his highest appreciation of the 
Sanitary Commission, and has offered to 
assist me in obtaining transportation to the 
front, by volunteering the services of his 
train of hospital wagons under his command. 
I shall try Jnd secure this opportunity to 
push forward to Kinston immediately. 

I have sent a few stores to the 2d Brigade 
of the 1st Division ; also, have been able to 
supply some relief to the needy at this 
station. 

The sick were all sent to Newbern this 
evening ; a list of which I forwarded in my 
letter of yesterday. 

A wounded man from Capt. Graham's 
comp;iny arrived at the tent just at dark, 
he was dumped on the railroad about a mile 
from hei-e by the ambulance driver, and 
obliged to walk here. I received a telegram 
from Dr. Rice to look out for him and put 
a bandage on his wound, which I did and 
kept hiru in the tent until the cars left. 
He seemed to suffer some pain from having 
to walk' so long a distance to this station 
on the railroad. 

The wounded man referred to is now in 
the General Hospital here in Newbern, and 
is doing well. j. w. P. 



WOMAN'S CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIEF. 
MONTHLY REPORT — NO. X. 

Our report for the month of March is 2']9 
packages received, 470 packages distribu- 
ted. Of these there have been sent to City 
Point, for the armies operating against Rich- 
mond, 357 packages; to Norfolk, ^Va., 24 
packages; to Washington, 1; Newbern, N. 
C, 10 ; Beaufort, S, C, 39 ; New Orleans, 
21; Portsmouth Grove, R. L, 1 ; U. S. 
Navy, 1 ; five hospitals in and near New 
York city, 15; " Special Relief," 1. 

Since we last wrote, we have to congratu- 
late our friends upon the capture of Rich- 
mond — the capitol of the late Southern 
Confederacy. The good news, coming to us 
yesterday, is too recent, the joy and thank- 
fulness too deep for many words, as yet. We 
nie(it our friends, we shake hands, we say : 



" Yes, it is indeed good news — thank God!" 
That is all. And we try to realize what it 
means, and why it is that this victory is so 
much more to us than any other victory, 
and we look back and count over the battles 
of the four years, and remember how we felt 
after each one of them, and feel this to be 
very different from any of the others. And 
we wander off into thoughts of peace, of a 
time when there will be no more fighting, 
no more prisoners, no more anxiety, of a 
time when body and spirit can rest from the 
thought-pressure of physical suffering — how 
strange ! 

" I suppose you are very busy so-day, 
sending off everything," says a voice at our 
elbow, recalling us from dream-land to the 
practical realities — the poetical realities 
often — of No, 10 Cooper Union. " No, not 
particularly busy just now — we were very 
busy last week and a fortnight ago, shipping 
supplies to City Point, in anticipation of 
these battles. More than three-quarters of 
all we sclit off during the past month went 
there. Here are the invoices of those con- 
signments. Naming only the most import- 
ant articles, we find 10,020 flannel shirts, 
8,129 pairs flannel drawers, 1,994 pairs 
cotton drawers, 981 pairs of socks, 282 
pillows, nearly 200 bed quilts, and 1,200 
cans lemonade. Besides these, large quan- 
tities of supplies, which we could not furn- 
ish, have been purchased and sent from the 
Central office of the Commission. This 
morning a telegram from City Points tells 
us that the store houses of the Commission 
are full, and that everything is being done 
for the wounded. It is a great relief to 
know this. Were it not for the steady work 
of the Soldiers' Aid Societies, working, as 
they do, month in and ihonth out, with or 
without any special excitement, we could 
never have been so prepared for this emer- 
gency, could never have had these supplies 
on the very spot, and at the very moment 
when they are so much needed " " And 
what is your work for this week ?" '• Our 
receipts will be larger than usual, they al- 
ways are after a battle, and we are thankful 
that it is so. They will keep us busy. We 
shall also, most probably, make large ship- 
ments, but whether to go up the James River 
to Richmond, or to some point on the coast 
for Sherman's army, we do not know — have 
not yet received the requisition from the 
Central office." 

You may have noticed that our distribu- 
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exceed the receipts for those two months. 
Owing to the comparative inactivity hist 
winter of the armies at the East, wi were 
able to accamulate a hirge stock on hand, 
and it is this reserve stock we are now draw- 
ing upon,'and which enables us to meet the 
very heavy demands for this spring's cam- 
paign. 

How much longer the need for our eiForts 
may continue, we do not yet know. We 
do know that when the time comes for us 
to stop working, the Commission will ap- 
prise us. Until then we hope the work 
will not be allowed to slacken. 

For the Committee on Correspondence. 
Louisa Lee Schuyler, 

Chairman. 
Nkw York, 7 Coopek Union, ■) 
April 4, 1865. / 



A WEEK IN ANNAPOLIS. 



Extracts from the Journal of Mrs. II , 

Visiting the Prisoners. 

Annapolis, March 25. 

My Dear Mrs. Gr. : — The few days we 
have been here we have been fully occupied 
in acting as " Hospital Visitors." Perhaps a 
^ few incidents, taken from the daily entries 
in my note book, may give you a better in- 
sight into our work. 

The very first thing that attracted our 
notice, the morninc: after our arrival, was a 
train of ambulances passing the San. Com. 
office, carrying the dead to the cemetery. 
We followed on after them, the bodies in 
the first and last ambulance are covered with 
the flag, under whose folds they have so 
often battled bravely. The ambulances, 
the guard following the procession, carrying 
19 coffins moved on into the Soldiers' 
Cemetery, and there, with the burial-service 
said for all, we saw them laid to rest. 

It seems to me but right, that on each 
prisoner's head-board should be inscribed, 
"Starved to Death;" that in time to 
come, Southern chivalry may see and know 
what they have done. 

The remainder of that day we spent at 
St. John's College Hospital. In the 1st 
ward we found an old gentleman from Ohio, 
watching by the bedside of his only child, 
the last of six, as he said. The rebels cap- 
tured and murdered' his other sons the past 
summer, and this one was all he had. The 
boy, though starved, is doing well, probably 
may live. 

In the last arrival came a skeleton-look- 
ing boy who seemed to grieve sadly over 



his younger brother, who died before reach- 
ing the cars; he said they had' 3 miles to 
march, his brother was too sick to walk, 
so he took him upon his back and 
carried him two miles, when he found that 
his strength was so entirely gone that he 
was obliged to lay him down to rest ajs^hile. 
When he started again, he found he could 
not move any further, and laid him upon 
the ground. The boy reached up towards 
him, put his arms around his neck and 
died directly, and there he was obliged to 
leave him, while he tottered on himself to 
the cars. Steward Newman, of the 5th 
Michigan cavalry, told us of a father who 
coming to look for his son, arrived two hours 
after his death ! He was the last of seven 
sons, who had fallen in the service; four 
died in rebel prisons, and the fifth soon after 
he landed. 

While Newman was prisoner at Florence, 
he entered his name in three different 
squads, that he might draw rations for 3 
men, — he was so starved and desperate that 
he was willing to run the risk of being de- 
tected and of receiving 100 lashes, which 
he knew would be the penalty. At thanks- 
giving, the rebels found they were tunnel- 
ling out somewhere, and because they 
would not tell, gave them no food for eighty 
hours. 

A little German boy had been so low with 
scurvy that his palate dropped off. At 
Anderson he laid for two days beside a dead 
man that he might draw his rations. 

Annapolis, March 27. 

The more I see of the "Sanitary Home 
and its working, the more inclined I am to 
say with a woman from Mass., " that it is 
the best and noblest institution she ever 
heard of." She came, a stranger, looking 
for her boy ; was aided in her search, and 
to-day found his Bible, his father's likeness, 
and a few other treasures, and then ugon 
the record read his death on the 14th. He 
was too weak to speak plainly, and so they 
had not his name correctly, but the articles 
belonged to him, and that was enough. 

Yesterday there were two mothers here, 
mourning for their dead. One, from New 
York, had been an inmate of "The Home" 
for six mouths, waiting upon her wounded 
son, a returned prisoner. He was her only 
child, and yesterday, after so many weeks of 
suffering and of agony, cahnly and gently 
"slept the sleep that knows no waking." 
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town, Pa., who arrived two hours after her son 
was buried, — " he was her only son, and 
she was a widow." She bears it all so 
beautifully, submitting as only a Christian 
can. The whole house is interested in her, 
and her expressions of grateful appreciation 
of the kindness received through the Sani- 
tary Commission are most touching. 

Annapolis "Sanitary Home," 3Iarch 29. 
Yesterday I had the privilege of assisting 
in some sanitary work so very gratifying to 
me, that I cannot but write immediately to 
tell you of it. Major Howes permitted us 
to take part in the distribution of sanitary 
articles, as they are given out at the "Col- 
lege Green Barracks." First in order 
comes the long line of men, 1,400 in all; 
each man with his new cup, plate, knife, 
fork and spoon; they inarch on to the 
kitchen window, where each in turn has 
his cup filled with soup, and receives one-half 
loaf of bread, and a mess of cabbage. Some 
few would stop to taste the savory dinner 
before they wished to move ; but the guard 
or attendants in the kitchen would cafl out, 
''Hurry up men, double-quick!" and the 
loiterer would be reminded that other men 
wanted dinner; and so they passed oh in the 
same orderly manner coming up in the line to 
the Sanitary storehouse, where was given to 
them thread, needles, combs, envelope, with 
sheet of paper nicely folded in it; towels, 
soap and water in abundance to be found at 
the bathing house. They all looked, and I 
have no doubt, were pleased. Many <' thank 
you's" were said heartily, blended often 
with more soldier-like phrases, such as 
" that's bully, just what I was looking for ;" 
and several remarked, "Boys, wouldn't we 
like the rebs to see this?" "The folks do 
care for us at home," "Good dessert this!" 
and so, a hurried, ofttimes merry conversa- 
tion was kept up with the moving line, 
such as "Where do you come froui, State 
and corps?" "Old 2d of Pennsylvania." 
"Ah! all right, that's mine;" or, "Where 
do you belong, cavalry ?" from a lady on my 
right; if the answer came "Michigan," 
which it often did, the response would 
be, "The 1st or 5th is a brave regi- 
ment, is it not, and your General (Custer) 
just as brave?" "That he is lady," from 
the soldier. And then the lady on my left 
would enquire, "You are a Yankee boy, I 
know?" "Yes, Boston, ma'am." Two 
stalwart looking fellows answered to the 
query, "California;" a goodly specimen of 



the country, though now showing rebel 
care and treatment. One of our valued 
agents found a few that replied " England," 
whom he saw in the ranks from his island 
home. In about two hours, the crowd had 
all been supplied, and were scattered. As 
an ending to such a pleasant day's work, I 
must give you an extract from a note which 
I have just received from the wife of the 

Assistant Adjutant General, Mrs. G , 

who was one of our party. She says : 
"Accept my thanks for the agreeable man- 
ner in which I spent yesterday morning, 
and believe me more devotedly the friend 
of the Sanitary Commission than ever. 
Heaven prosper the noble work and all who 
are engaged in it. Its deeds of charity are 
among the few rays of light which pierce 
the dark shadows of war. They will ever 
be a beloved memory, both to recipients and 
donors." 

Mrs. G.'s husband came here a prisoner, 
wearing some Sanitary clothing, which had 
reiiched him in his far-off prison; so she 
feels the value of this noble work. * * * 

A Maryland infantry boy, belonging to 
the 9th corps, was a prisoner eight months, 
had had a furlough, and was now back 
again ready for duty — had asked to be sent 
front, saying, "The rebels had boarded him 
eight months, and he was anxious to go 
back to settle his bill of fare." , 

Annapolis, March 29. 
The arrival of a boat with returned 
prisoners, is the signal for every one to rush 
to the landing; following the crowd, we 
came to the wharf just in time to see the 
unsteady column begin to move from the 
vessel. On board, the Hospital Band is 
playing cheerful strains of welcome, and 
they come ashore to the sound of music. 

" Back to the North where the air is free, 
Back from the laud of iKiin." 

Tottering and feeble, bronzed and smoke- 
blackened, tangled hair and matted beards, 
some in rebel garb, many barefooted and 
bareheaded, the majority clothed in shirt 
and drawers furnished by the Sanitary Com- 
mission in Wilmington, a few fortunate 
possessors of a blanket ; this is the walking 
party, but such walking. It was more than 
some of thein could do to move, and so they 
gave it up, and as the line of stretcher- 
bearers followed in their wake, were added 
to the list. 

Sorry plight, for 300 brave men to come 
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tbe nation — patient and uncomplaining. 
They do not blame the Government. They 
censure no one. In all the precious 
lives lost to friends and home, and the 
wrecks of noble soldiers yet remaining, 
is not the hand of God seen ? The costly 
ofieriug was asked for and given, that 
the nation might be saved, and that dis- 
tant lands might learn to what refinements of 
cruelty. Slavery had educated a people. 

In a previous arrival, a man was noticed 
straining bis eyes towards the shore, and as 
they neared the wharf was among the first 
to press forward to leave the vessel. lie 
walked along the plank, eagerly looking in 
the distance, a few feeble steps upon our 
soil, and then fell dead ; his wish gratified — 
he died at home. When taken to the Hos- 
pital they are bathed, hair and beard trim- 
med, have clean clothes put on them, and 
are laid on good comfortable beds. When, a 
few hours later, we saw them, we could not 
recognize the squalid crowd we had so 
lately seen. The Sanitary Commission has 
no nobler, better work carried on than this 
" Home." From this quiet place will go 
out an influence to be felt in States, near 
and remote. Whoever has been here can- 
not but be a worker for tne U. S. Sanitary 
Commission. 



ANDERSONVILLE PRISONERS. 

Caiuo, April 5, 1865. 

Dr. J. S. Newi5Erry: 

Dear Sir — Enclosed please find copy of 
letter from Mr. Brown, giving some idea of 
the condition of our poor soldiers from An- 
dersonville. I trust the shipments already 
made will relieve them until further ship- 
ments can be made. 

I have notice of a shipment from Detroit, 
also from Milwaukee, on receipt of your 
telegrams to each. 

I have, to-day, made shipment in addition 
to one made on the 2d inst. Since my last 
report to you, I have advices of two car- 
loads, on the way from Chicago. Hope 
to be able to keep them supplied. 
Very respectfully, yours, 

' C. N. Shipman, 

Agent U. S. San. Com. 
V(CKSBUiiG, March 30, 1865. 

Mr. C. N. Shipman : 

Dear Sir — I have just received the sup- 
plies invoiced to us on the 24th lust. All 
right! Many thanks. I can assure you 
the goods are needed, and more, too. I 
doubt whether there has been a more dis- 



tressed looking set of men since the war 
began, than those now coming in from An- 
dersonville. Many are dying on the way, 
and others are just able to get into what 
they call "God's country" to die. Six 
were buried at Black River, last evening, 
and two more died on the cars, coming in 
from there. Out of a squad of a hundred 
and twenty-five that reached Black Biver 
yesterday morning, almost every man is 
suffering from scurvy. About five hundnjd 
came in from Black River this morning, 
making about forty-five hundred in all. 
Several thousand more are coming, so that 
there is no danger of our getting too many 
sanitary stores on hand here. I hope I 
shall get the goods invoiced on the 25th 
instant, soon. We need the crackers. 
Vegetables are needed very much. 

The hospital boat, R. C. Wood, is here 
loading with sick for Northern hospitals. I 
will write again soon. 

Very truly, yours, 

J. G. Brown. 



From the Sanitary Reporter, March 15. 
SUPPLIES. 

The accompanying papers from some of 
the military and medical authorities, will 
show how eager the call for vegetables is in 
the Army of the Cumberland. The Com- 
mission has already sent forward large sup- 
plies of potatoes, kraut and pickles, and will 
continue to send all it can obtain from the 
contributions of auxiliary societies and by 
direct purchase. The branches at the West 
will, no doubt, respond generously to the 
apjieal made to them. 

So many new recruits are going to the 
army, that the hospitals are begihning to 
till up again, and all sorts of supplies will 
be most acceptable. Word comes from the 
principal distributing depots, that the wants 
of the soldiers are large and pressing, and 
that the Commission must keep up a largely 
increased stock of articles to correspond to 
the increasing numbers of troops. 

Let there be good pi'cparation for the 
spring campaign, and let what is to he done, 
be done at once. 

Headquarters Dep't op the Cumberland, 



Na 



iRTERS Dep't op the Cumberland, \ 

Medical Director's Okkice, >■ 

SHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 28, 18G5. J 

Sir — It is represented that the troops of 
the cavalry corps, stationed at and near 
Eastport, Miss., aie in need of vegetables 
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as were sent some time since were taken by 
Major General A. J. Smith's command, en 
route to New Orleans. Will you please see 
that supplies of the kind needed are sent as 
soon as possible? 

'Very resp'y, your obd't servant, 

George E. Cooper, 

Surgeon U. S. Army Medical Director. 

Judge Root, Agent U. S. S. 'C, Nashville, 
Tennessee. 

Headquarters Cav. Corps, Mil. Div. Miss., 1 
Gravelly Springs, Ala., Feb. 16, 1865. / 

Special Orders No. 31. 

EXTRACT. 

Major Lusk, 10th Mo. cavalry, is hereby 
authorized to proceed to Louisville, Ky., on 
duty connected with the U. S. Sanitary 
Commission. Quartermaster General will 
furnish the necessary transportation on 
chartered transports. 

On completion of his business he will re- 
turn without delay to his command. 

By command of Brevet Major General 
Wilson. E. B. BeaumoxNT, 

; Major and A. A. G. 

Headquarters Cav. Corps, Mil. Div. Miss., ") 
Gravelly Springs, Ala., Feb. 17, 1865. / 

Dear Sir — The bearer hereof is Major 
Lusk, of this corps, whom I desire to in- 
troduce to you Major General Wilson has 
directed Major Lusk to proceed to Louis- 
ville for the purpose of procuring sanitary 
supplies of an anti-scorbutic character. The 
articles most required are potatoes, kraut 
and pickles; clothing and stimulants we do 
not need. 

The number of- troops in this region is 

about . If you can consistently give 

us a liberal supply of the articles mentioned, 
I believe much sickness will be prevented 
thereby. 

I am, sir, very resp'y, your obd't serv't, 
F. Salter, 

Surgeon U. S. V., and'M. D. Cav. Corps, M. D. M. 

Dr. Newberry, U. S. S. C, Louisville, Ky. 

Headquarters Dep'tof the Cumberland, 
Medical Director's Office, 
Nashville, Tenn., March 1, 1865. 

Sir — There are troops in and about 

Chattanooga, and in and about Knoxville, 
who are re(iuiring sanitary supplies — vege- 
tables. Can you make it convenient to 
furnish the same ? 

Your obedient servant, 

George E. Cooper, 

Surgeon U. S. V., Medical Director. 

Judge Root, Agent U. S. S. C, Nashville, 
Tennessee. 



Headquarters 1st Division Cavalry Corps,") 
Waterloo, Ala., Feb. 20, 1865. J 

Dear Sir — I am compelled by the actual 
need of vegetables in this command, to ask 
you to send us a quantity of potatoes and 
onions, if you have the supply on hand. 
Our cavalry numbers in the neighborhood 
of men, that can be reached by send- 
ing a boat to Eastport. Our division num- 
bers •. It you could not ship for the 

whole corps, please ship Vhat you can for 
this division, and I will see to their distri- 
bution. W^e are much in want of vegeta- 
ble food'', and while the command is lying 
in camp is the time to prepare our men for 
active operations, and good health is what 
is most needed. 

Please ship to George E. Sloat, Surgeon 
in Chief 1st Division Cavalry Corps, Mili- 
tary Division, Mississippi. 

Very respectfully, your obd't servant, 
Georgp E. Sloat, 

Surgeon in Chief 1st Division. 

Dr. J. S. Newberry, Sec. S. C, Louis- 
ville, Ky. 



From Sanitary Reporter, March li5. 
DEPARTMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND 
ARKANSAS. 

In looking over the Sanitary work in 
these departments for the past four months, 
though there have been no demands for the 
exigencies of great battles as in other de- 
partments, and therefore there is nothing to 
attract the public eye, nothing to create the 
intense interest which always concentrates 
about large numbers of wouuded men ; still 
to those who examine the real demands to 
be supplied, in order to prevent disea.se, to 
keep up the efficiency of the army, and to 
add to the comfort of the soldiers, the work 
assumes a magnitude and an importance 
which can hardly be estimated. 

The field embraces the whole of the Mis- 
sissippi Kiver from Cairo to New Orleans, 
and the State of Arkansas, with all of the 
" homes" or " lodges" for soldiers, the hos- 
pitals, garrisons, camps, and troops in the 
field, and all the Naval vessels of the Mis- 
sissippi, White, and Arkansas rivers. 

There are in the department, including 
Cairo, but eight paid agents of the Commis- 
sion, viz: One Inspector, two Superintend- 
ents of homes or lodges, one Hospital Visi- 
tor, and four General Relief Agents; at 
each station there are more or less detailed 
soldiers to as.-^ist in the work. 

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the issues from this depot, Memphis, uloue 
amounted to one hundred and sixty thou- 
sand dollars, tiie value being estimated at 
the wholesale cost in northern markets. 
This does not include tlje thousands of little 
articles contributed by individuals for the 
comfort of the soldiers, and which, though, 
it is impossible to estimate their value in 
money, add much to the real value of the 
work. 

During the last four mouths the work has 
been more than in any of the four mouths 
of the year preceding, though at present 
the cash value cannot be estimated. From 
causes beyond tlje control of the U S. Sani- 
tary (Jomniission, the interior Posts of Ar- 
kansas, such as Duvall's Bluff, Brownsville, 
Little Rock, Pine Bluif, and Fort Smith, 
have not received the attention which was 
demanded ; but since Nov. 1' 1864, all 
these Posts, hospitals, garrisons, and camps 
have been supplied with vegetables, both 
fresh and pickled, clothing and hospital 
supplies as the means of the Commission 
would wari'ant, and it is most gratifying to 
know that now there is little real suffering 
for the want of anything the Commission 
can furnish. 

The hospitals in this city, Vicksburg, 
Natchez, Helena, Duvall's Bluff", Little 
Rock, Pine Bluff, Brownsville, and Fort 
Smith are kept supjjUed, as far as transpor- 
tation can be had. Every naval vessel in 
the river receives a generous supply. Thou- 
sands of troops in tixtnsi'tu call at Cairo, 
Memphis, Vicksburg, and other points, and 
get clothing, vegetables dried fruit, con- 
centrated milk, stimulants, &c. 

Within the past few months the whole 
field has been thoroughly explored and 
every hospital and garrison visited, and the 
exact wants of each are shown. ■ The Inspec- 
tor of the department is kept advised of the 
average number of troops at each station, 
both in the garrisons and hospitals, so that 
he can draw orders on the Counuission for 
what is wanted ; and now, a trusted and 
long-tried agent of the Commission, D. B. 
Carpenter, has gone with supplies with the 
army operating in the extreme South. The 
friends of the Commission may rest assured 
that, so far as their agents have the means 
at their disposal, no want shall go unsup- 
plied ; and it is thankfully aokmiwledgcd 
that the supplies on hand have oflon been 
greater than transportation could be had 
for; still, it is but just to say, that without 
one exception, the army Quartermasters 



have always afforded all the .facilities in 
their power, and but one military com- 
mander has ever given the Commission the 
" coldshoiilder." With this one exception 
the commanders have acknowledged the 
great good done by the Commission, and 
to Major- Generals Washburn, Steel, Hurl- 
burt, and Buford, the Commission is deeply 
indebted for kindness skoown. ^ 

The opening of the Spring campaign ad- 
monishes us that we have a great work to 
do the present season ; but we rejoice to 
feel that we can rely with confidence on 
the peoj}le of the Korth. The army is theirs, 
the work is theirs, and their whole heart is 
in it. Letters of cheer are constantly com- 
ing from Boston, from Buffalo, from Mil- 
waukee, extreme points of our great coun- 
try — the East calls to the West, asking, 
" What do you need ?" One noble woman 
who has from the first been one of the most 
constant and indefiitigable workers, and who 
has traveled from one end of the land to 
the other, writes, " How can we spend our 
money to the best advantage V The least 
we can do is to tell them where these bene- 
factions go, and assure them of the good 
accomplished. Benj. Woodward, 

Supt. Dep't. 

From the CincinBati Gazette. 
EXPLOSION OF STEAMEE ECLIPSE. 

Paddcah, Ky., Feb. 8. 
Eds. Gazette: — The undersigned having 
received invaluable assistance from the 
agents of the U. S. Sanitary Commission at 
this place, during the time that the unfor- 
tunate sufferers from the- explosion of the 
steamer Eclipse were on our hands, would 
respectfully, through the medium of your 
paper, desire to return thanks to the said 
Commission and its agents, Messrs. E. D. 
Way, L. Owen, D. C. Petty, and T. E. 
Horton. These gentlemen labored with 
uuremittiug ardor from early morning to 
late at night, in cooking and distributing 
coffee, soups, &c., to the sick, and furnish- 
ing the surgeons with rags, bandages, towels, 
and such other necessaries in the shape of 
dressings as we required. Twenty minutes 
after the boat temporarily used as a hospital 
steamer arrived at our wharf, they were ou 
board with their cauldron of boiling coffee 
and rich soup, ready to distribute it to the 
men, many of whom had not tasted food 
since the night before. Indiana owes these 
geiitlenien a debt of gratitude for the ex- 
emplary way in which they acquitted them- 
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Requesting insertion for tins, in order to 
show our appreciation of the U. S. Sanitary 
Commission, we are, 

Very respectfully yours, 

Henry W. Davis, 

Surgeon U. S. Vols., and Medical Director, Dist. of Western 
Kentucky. 

Sol. B. Wolff, 

Surgeon ISlst Ohio Vols., Post Surgeon. 



KN0X7ILLE, Tenn., March 24, 18G5. 
Dr. J. S. Newberry : 

Sec'ry Western Department U. S. San. Com. 

Dear Sir : — As I have already notified 
you by letter and telegram, I left Chatta- 
nooga yesterday morning for a brief visit to 
this post. This seemed to be imperatively 
demanded from the fact that after starting 
two car loads of stores for Knoxville, i 
learned by letter from Mr. Gardner, Agent 
in charge here, that he had gone on to the 
front with Gen. Gillam's command, to make 
out lists of casualties, if an engagement 
should occur. He left a young man, Wil- 
liam Lupendon, of Co. B, lOod 0. V. 1., in 
charge of the rooms, who was fully quali- 
fied for the work with the small supply of 
stores on hand ; but it was evident that an 
authorized agent should be at the post to 
give directions in regard to the goods just 
shipped. 

On reaching Knoxville, I found William 
also gone, lleceiving notice of the ship- 
ment, he made preparations to receive it, 
and worked all day on the 22d to get the 
stores to the rooms. He labored hard, and 
too hard, but seemed well, and made no 
complaint. On the morning of the 2od, 
not appearing at breakfast, search was made 
for him, and he was found at his room on 
his cot insensible, in a moribund condition, 
and died in about thirty minutes after he 
was found. Dr. Curtiss, Medical Director, 
and other surgeons made every effort to save 
him, but without avail. They will report, 
alt^r examination, on the cause of his death, 
which is yet uncertain. 

1 find by a letter from his mother, left 
upon his table, that he lived at Cleveland, 
Ohio; that his pay was carefully saved and 
deposited in bank to enable him to get an 
education when the time of his enlistment 
had expired. A well worn Greek Gram- 
mar and many other evidences of his studi- 
ous habits are to be found on his table, i 
was not personally acquainted with him, but 
the surgeons and all who have mot him at 



the rooms, speak in the highest terms of hia 
noble and manly character. 

Under the circumstances, though needed 
at Chattanooga, I shall feel compelled to re- 
main here until Mr^Gardner returns, or the 
help from Louisville, for which I have tele- 
, graphed, is received. 

This post has largely increased in im- 
portance. A large army is pushing its 
way Eastward, and a large supply of stores 
and at least three first class men are needed 
at once ; one to stay here, receive stores, 
issue here and ship to the front; one to re- 
main in the field, visiting the different 
commands, ascertaining thf^r wants, and re- 
porting to the oflace here ; the third to pass 
backwards and forwards upon the railroad, 
taking charge of shipments, and, perhaps, 
keeping up a depot at the terminal station. 

Although particularly interested in the 
post of Chattanooga, as it is specially under 
my charge, I feel constrained to report that 
this depot needs, and probably for some 
time will need, a larger supply of. sanitary 
stores than that. It seems to me, also, 
that it is of more importance than ever 
before, that there should be some one man 
in the field, who can frequently visit all the 
posts from Louisville to Knoxville, and 
then to the East of Knoxville and to the 
South of Chattanooga, and report upon the 
comparative wants of each. I can see no 
other way in which an impartial distri- 
bution of the gifts of the people can be 
made. 

The benefit which the armies in this de- 
partment have received from the Commis- 
sion through the special efforts which have 
been made from time to time to furnish 
vegetables in large quantities, so that they 
could be distributed to all, whether sick or 
well, can never be over-estimated; and at 
no time has there been, as I am well per- 
suaded, more reason for such an effort than 
now. The army has had an unusually ac- 
tive winter campaign. The country through 
which it has moved and is likel}' to niuve, 
is stripped of supplies, detached and con- 
valescent men have been gatherqd up from 
all quarters and sent to their commands. 
Large numbers of new troops unaccustomed 
to the hardships and privations of army life, 
have just taken the field. For a iong time no 
antiscorbutics, or no adequate supply of 
them have been distributed, and cases of 
scurvy are by no means rare. I fear that 
the cheering prospect of an early peace is 
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ers at home, but hope it will rather increase 
their zeal. We uiay be disappointed in 
these hopes, but if fortunately we are not, 
1 trust that the soldiers in tbe field will 
have occasion to feel that their friends at 
home have remembered and loved them 
unto the end, and that the last campaign 
will witness such an overflowing supply of 
sanitary stores as will demonstrate that the 
army and the people are one. 

We have to-day made a large issue of 
stores to the Asylum Hospital, and I have 
been able to visit with Dr. Mencham, the 
Surgeon in charge, several of the wards, the 
kitchens, dining rooms, bakery, commissary 

rooms, &c. It has, in round numbers, 

patients, mostly in tents, who are evidently 
doing wlII, look cheerful, and are well pro- 
vided for. The arrangements and condition 
of the hospital are excellent. The highest 
possible meed of praise is certainly due to 
the Surgeon in charge and to Dr. Curtiss, 
the Medical Director of the post, for their 
successful efforts in providing for the comfort 
of their sick. They have been left, with an in- 
adequate medical force, to rely almost entirely 
on their own resources in providing for the 
sick. At this distant post, with communica- 
tion frequently interrupted, the commissary 
and the Commission have been able to furn- 
ish but a meagre and fitful supply of hospital 
stores. Almost their sole reliance has been 
upon the country, and they have scoured it 
far and near for articles of diet. Apples, 
green and dried ; potatoes, butter, milk, 
eggs (from 80 to 100 dozen a day), chick- 
ens, &c., have been thus obtained, not, per- 
haps, in as large quantities as have been 
needed, but in quantities as large as are 
often obtained for hospitals of the same 
capacity in the most favored locations. But 
the supply from this source cannot be kept 
up. The potatoes obtained are of an inferior 
quality, and it would be very ungenerous as 
well as unjust to practically say to those 
gentlemen, you are so faithful and energetic 
that you do not need our help. 

This hospital has received the patients 
from the others which have been succes- 
sively broken up, but there is a demand f(tr 
more room, and another large hospital is to 
be immediately opened. For both of these 
and for the front, I cannot make too urgent 
an appeal, asking you, however, not to forget 
Chattanooga while sending bountiful sup- 
plies here. Yours very truly, 

M. C. Read, 

Agent at Chattanooga. 



THE FAR WEST. 

Leavenworth, Kansas, April 1, 1865. 
Dr. J. S. Newberry, 

Secretary XJ. S. Sanitary Comniissioa West. Dept. 

Sir : — I have the honor to transmit here- 
with my report of receipts and disburse- 
ments for the month of March, and beg 
leave to call your attention to the remarks* 
made thereon. From the large number of 
hospitals depending on this post, and their 
great distance, you will see that it is impossi- 
ble for me to make personal'visitsto them all. 
I enclose a letter from Andrew J. Willey, 
Surgeon in charge of Post Hospital at Cot- 
tonwood Springs, Nebraska Territory, which 
is but a sample of many I receive from those 
distant posts. I am often unable to fill re- 
quisitions for want of transportation. Fre- 
quently, when it is offered, my assortment 
is so broken that I am unable to send the 
articles most needed. My supply of cloth- 
ing is sufficient for the present, but I 
greatly need antiscrobutics and dietary arti- 
cles. 

My health has been bad for the past 
month, and I respectfully request leave of 
absence for thirty days, toi recuperate. 
Respectfully, your ob't ser't, 

J. R. Brown. 

* The following is a list of hospitals de- 
pending upon this post for sanitary sup- 
plies : — Lawrence, (Jlathe, Salina, Mound 
City, Paola, Humbolt, Fort Riley, Fort 
Zarah, Omaba, Dacotah, Cottonwood, Co- 
lumbus, Fort Kearney, Plumb Creek, Junc- 
tion Station, Fort Rankin, Denver City, 
Fort Scott, and Fort Leavenworth, with an 

aggregate of sick, as shown by last 

week's report to Medical Director Davis. 

Up to this time all the transportation has 
been used in carrying supplies to the army, 
and several requisitions made upon me for 
sanitary supplies have not been filled. The 
Medical Director says that very soon trans- 
portation will be furnished for all supplies 
that I can send to these extreme western 
points, and that the necessary comfort for 
the sick can be procured in no other way. 

As soon as transportation is furnished, 
my ass(jrtment of stores will be inadequate 
to the demand. You will see by the re- 
port the articles that 1 am most in need of. 

1 am also in receipt of a re(]uisition from 
Salt Lake City for antiscrobutics, &c., which 
1 would like to fill if they could be furn- 
ished in a compact form, and by the middle 
of May. 



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AID TO VICTIMS OF SOUTHERN BARBARITY. 

VicKSBURG, Miss., April 2, 1865. 
Dr. J. S. Newberry. 

Seeretary U. S. Sanitary Commission. 

I arrived here late last night, and find 
that our stores have uot reached here any too 
soon. There are now in camp four miles 
from here about 4,000 prisoners, and more 
are coming in every day. Those who came 
in first were from Cahawba, and were in 
much better condition than those now com- 
ing in, who are from Andersonville. The 
latter are in a very feeble and distressing 
condition, every train containing more or 
less who h:.ve died upon the road. Yes- 
terday an ambulance came in which started 
from Jacksou with four sick men, and when 
it arrived they were all dead. Large trains 
of ambulances are running between Black 
River and Jackson, bringing those who are 
too feeble to walk. The city hospitals are 
being emptied to make room for them, and 
every thing is being done that ca^n be done, 
but still many will die, for the succour has 
come too late 

It is expected that between ten and fif- 
teen thousand men will be brought here, 
and they will be several weeks coining in. 
They are neither exchanged ,nor paroled, 
but are still under the control of a rebel 
officer, (Cob Henderson, I believe), who is 
at the camp. 

I visited Gen. Morgan L. Smith this 
morning, and he promised me every facility 
and assistance, placing laborers, teams and 
a guard at my disposal. The supplies which 
I have will last for some days, but will need 
large additions, especially of kraut and 
onions if they can be procured. I would 
also urge that a large quantity of tobacco be 
sent, as it will be most gratefully received. 
The men have uot been, aud cannot be paid. 
They are greedy, ravenous for tobacco ; and, 
famished as they are, are willing to trade 
a part of their rations for it. Several hun- 
dred pounds have already been donated by 
the citizens, but it hardly gave them a day's 
supply. r think no better, expenditui'e 
could be made than to purchase three or 
four thousand, pounds of tobacco, both 
chewing and smoking, and a few boxes of 
clay pipes. The camp is in the midst of a 
cane country, where plenty of stems can be 
procured. Mr. Brown tells me there is also 
a great call for suspenders. None are furn- 
ished by Crovernment, and in their weak and 
emaciated condition the men cannot btar to 
have their pants buckled tightly about them. 



I learn also that there is great need of a 
feeding station at Black River crossing, and 
shall make an eft'ort to start one there to- 
morrow, as we have all the necessary appli- 
ances. Mr. Johnson is an experienced 
hand at that business, and will be jus't the 
man to take charge of it. I do not think 
we shall need any more clothing, unless it 
be socks, of which we have very few. Col. 
Noble, of the 17th Connecticut, delivered 
a lecture here last night, in which he stated 
that there were men on their way here who 
have not had a shirt on their backs for more 
than twelve months. Their only article of 
clothing is a piece of blanket tied about the 
loins, and their bodies are so dried and 
blackened by smoke that you cannot tell 
whether they were originally white or black. 

I have not yet ^ been to the camp, but 
shall go with a supply of stores to-morrow 
morning, and will keep you informed of any- 
thing I may see. 

Hoping soon to hear from you in the way 
of a supply of kraut, onions, tobacco, &c., I 
remain, Very respecttuUy, 

H. Tone. 

P. S. — -I find there is a groat scarcity of 
toicels here, and they are badly needed. 



THE UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMIS- 
SION AT CITY POINT. VA. 

U. S. Sanitary Commisison, "» 
Washington, AjjrU 6, 1865. . j 

To the Standing Committee of the U. S. 
Sanitary Covimission. 

Gentlemen :— The eventful week in the 
experience of the armies of the Potomac and 
James has found the Commission prepared 
to do its proper work with those armies. 

On the 4th inst. the schooner Baltimore 
reached City Point with an assorted cargo of 
supplies, and another left New York on the 
3d inst. As a measure of precaution, I 
have ordered another consignment of stores, 
similar to the last sent from New York. 
From City Point but one application for 
supplies has been received, and that but for 
two articles, bandages and arm-slings. The 
Journal of the 8d inst. states our losses in 
Sunday's fight to be comparatively slight. 
The wagons of the Commision with the 
Twenty-fifth Corps, accompanied it into 
Richmond ; one of the Ninth (]orps wagons 
entered Petersburg on the od with the 
hospital train of the 2d Division, and our 
agents under J. Warner Johnson, with wa- 
gons and stores, are with the moving column 
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There has been no call for additional as- 
sistance. Not less than fifty well qualified 
persons, selected with care for this work, 
await a call to the field. 

It is believed that City Point will remain 
a base of supplies to the armies, and that 
the depot hospitals will be maintained 
there. 

I have just received a letter from Mr. 
Harris, written yesterday, which says : " The 
demand on us for stores has been large, but 
with the ample stock on hand we have been 
able to meet all necessities." 

Dr. McDonald accompanied the Presi- 
dent's party to Kichmond on the 4th inst., 
by boat to Varina, thence by horse. 

The number of persons in the service of 
the Commission with the armies operating 
against llichmond was on April 1,1U0, and 
has not yet been materially increased. 

The accompanying list of articles sent to 
Cf?y Point since Feb.' 1, will indicate the 
character of the provision made ibr the 
present emergency. 

Very respectfully, 

J. Foster Jenkins, 

General Secretary. 

Blankets 1100 Ink, bottles 3608 

Candles, lbs 1400 Writing-paper, reams. 610 

Cushions 2000 Ale, boitles 1S32 

Dippers 2.S6 Dried apples, bbls 3.3 

Head-rests 100 [Blackberry cord '1, bols 1632 

Knives and forks, doz. l-OCauued meat, lbs 

Pails 360 1 Condensed egg, lbs 

Lanterns li;U|Coad'sedlemonade,pgs 

Pillows 800 Small dried fruit, lbs. 



Pipes, boxes 39 

Quilts 500 

Towels 24000 

Tin cups bOOO 

Tin plates, gross 21 

Spoons, doz 360 

Drawers, cotton, pairs. 2000 
Drawers, woolen, pairs 18000 

Handkerchiefs 22o00 

Mittens, pairs 142U0 

Shirts, cotton, hospital 2684 

Shirts, woolen 19000 

Slippers, pairs 3o000 

Socks, woolen, pairs.. 22000 

Suspenders, pairs ISOi 

Yarn, lbs 9.5 

Cologne, bottles 120 

Crutches, pairs 3000 

Games 1000 

Sponges, lbs 300 

Pin-cusiiions, needle- 
books, &c 1692.i 

Soap, boxes 72 

Envelopes 275000 



6.i36 

200 

2280 

1000 

2900 

2 

9600 

3.00 



Chocolate, lb 
Ground coffee, bbls. . . . 
Condensed milk, lbs.. 

Crackers, bbls 

Corn starch, lbs 4400 

Jamaica ginger, bots. . 14400 

Farina, lbs 59.50 

Lemons, boxes 25 

Maizena, lbs 2000 

Pickles, kegs 75 

Sugar, while, bbls.... 25 

Spices, lbs 125 

Tea, chests 5 

Canned tomatoes, lbs. 24240 

Tobacco, lbs 5160 

Bay rum, bottles 672 

Books, spelling, vols.. 3000 

Heading matter, boxes 2.) 

Penholders, doz 660 

Thread, lbs 155 

Needles, papers 2500 

Pins, papers 1200 

Pencils, doz 3720 

Pens, doz 2400 



Bed-pans, combs, knives and forks, corn 
meal, jelly and preserves, mustard, sago, 
salt; tapioca, gin, buttons, lint, old linen, &,c. 



PRESIDENT LINC©LN. 
It is meet that we add our humble testi- 
mony to the worth of our late Chief Magis- 
trate. 
Vol. I. No. 37 74 



Among the earliest acts of his adminis- 
tration, was to approve with his signature, 
as with his heart and influence, the U. S. 
Sanitary Commission. The Constitutional 
Commander of the Army of the United 
States, he was neverthelo.ss its friend ; and 
as he called the people to arms in the spring 
of '01, and felt the inadequacy of the Gov- 
ernment to meet all the wants of the sol- 
diers, and remembered his own, and the 
peoples' inexperience in war, he was glad to 
give his moral and official support to an agency 
that promised so much good to the country. 
Among the ^as/acts of his life was to visit the 
hospitals of City Point, and it is perhaps the 
most pleasing reminiscence of their hospital • 
life, that our soldiers can recall the circum- 
stances of his late visit. 

The convalescents from the wards were ^ 
ranged in files along the streets of the camp, 
and he passed from man to man, saluting 
each one with a friendly hand-shaking, and 
giving to many, kindly words of cheer and 
sympathy. But he did not forget those 
who, unable to leave their beds, could not 
enjoy the pleasure of receiving him pub- 
licly, and retiring from the crowd, he passed 
through all the wards, stopping at bed after 
bed, till everj^ man had touched his hand, 
and the whole five thousand of the camp 
had been treated with his friendly saluta- 
tion. 

Imagine the gloom that fell upon these 
men on hearing the news of his terrible 
death. Every heart seemed touched not 
only with a solemn sadness, but a silent 
grief rested upon alL As we strolled away 
from the camp into the country, a soldier, 
sitting alone, with drooping head, be- 
side a little stream, was, with apparent list- 
lessness whittling a stick, as we stopped 
in front of him and arrested his atten- 
tion by an ordinary remark. He looked 
up solemnly and said, " Bad news, sir-*— 
bad news ! I was thinking, sir, that I never 
knew before how much 1 loved our Presi- 
dent. I loved him, sir; the army loved him, 
and may God forgive the fiend who mur- 



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dered him." Such is doubtless the sentiment 
of the whole army. 

Among the conti-abands too, who gather 
in from the plantations and villages to Rich- 
mond and other places, there is apparently 
a deep and impressive solemnity at the men- 
tion of his name. Two old people of this 
neglected class were standing together in 
Richmond the other day, when the news of 
the assassination came in, and one was 
heard to use his name to the other thus : — 
" Did you know that President Lincoln was 
dead?" when the answer came quickly, 
'^ Oh, yes, but don't call him President, call 
him Father — he was Father Lincoln." 

In the annals of American history no 
man has received a larger share of 
public confidence and aifection, and it 
beino- the first time that an assassin has 
so convulsed the nation by the most dia- 
bolical deed in modern history, it is the 
saddest period that we have ever known. 
President Lincoln's great heart, full of ten- 
derness and forgiveness, was what endeared 
him to the people. Politicians differed as 
to his ^ministration. Statesmen may have 
sometimes doubted his wisdom. Extremists 
may have condemned himj but his honest, 
upright devotion to duty, his sympathy 
with the sick and suffering, his broad 
philanthropy towards all, gave him a place 
with the common people, and endeared him 
to the whole nation. For his qualities as a 
man, for his integrity as a ruler, for his be- 
nevolence as the Great Emancipator, his 
name and his memory will be honored by 
the lovers of right and freedom in all the 
world. 

OFFICIAL ACTION OF THE COMMISSION ON 
THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT. 

Mr. H. Biuney, Jr., on behalf of. the 
committee appointed on the 18th instant, to 
report a plan uf action to be taken by the 
Commission in expressing its sense upon 
the occasion of the death of the President 
of the United States, presented the follow- 
ing Preamble and Resolutions, which were, 
on motion, unanimously adopted by the 
Board : 



The infamous and cruel hand of a con- 
spirator and assassin has stricken down the 
beloved and honored head of the nation. 

The members of the United States Sani- 
tary Commission desire to relieve their own 
hearts in adding their tribute to that of the 
whole people to the memory of the man and 
the Chief Magistrate whom we have lost. 

If it be possible for us to love and honor 
Abraham Lincoln, more than we did when 
living, we do so now. 

We lose him when we need, more than 
ever, his wise head and true heart. Our 
loss is one which we cannot adequately 
measure, and our grief such as we feel una- 
ble to express. 

The nation mourns as it has never mourned 
since the death of Washington, and the In- 
augural of our t\^ice-chosen President, of 
which the echoes still linger on our ears, 
becomes a second Farewell Address, wliich 
will hold its place forever with the firs* in 
the hearts of the American people. 

In common with various associations of 
our fellow-citizens, the Sanitary Commission 
mourns a true friend and faithful protector. 
His sagacity at once adopted the scheme of 
the Commission when it was first planned, 
and he gave it his official approval — an act 
of inestimable value to us, and, as we think, 
of the greatest benefit to th^ country. His 
protection and countenance were continued 
to the close of his life, and his personal 
visit to the great Central Fair held for the 
benefit of the Commission in Philadelphia 
in June last is but one instance of his deep 
interest in its success. 

Desiring to record an expression of our 
respect, affection, and gratitude for our 
friend, protector, and benefactor, we adopt 
the following Resolutions : 

Rcsohed, That the members of the United 
States Sanitary Commission honor, and will 
ever honor and cherish, the name of x\bra- 
ham Lincoln, the nation's twice-chosen 
President, as that of a true and unselfish 
patriot, a wise and sagacious administrator 
of the Groverument, and a loving friend and 
protector of the people, whose simplicity of 
character, soundness of judgment, firmness 
of purpose, and uudoubting faith in God, 
deserve and will be held in everlasting re- 
membrance. 

Reaolved, That the United States Sani- 
tary Commission, called into existence under 
the official approval of President Lincoln at 
the ^tbreak of the Rebellion, to supplement 
the military power of the nation by organ- 



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izing the intelligence and sympathy of the 
country in its behalf, hereby records its 
deep gratitude for the approval and aid 
which he gave and continued to the hour of 
his death. 

He encouraged the Commission in its 
first appeal " to the Loyal Women of 
America,''" and the following words which 
he then used will be recalled as the most 
valuable praise the Commission has ever 
received : 

" The Sanitary Commission is doing a 
work of great humanity, and of direct prac- 
tical value to the nation in this time of its 
trial. It is entitled to the gratitude and 
the confidence of the people, and I trust it 
will be generously supported. There is no 
agency through which voluntary offerings 
of patriotism can be more efiectively madg;. 
■ " A. Lincoln." 

This great and good President has now 
passed beyond the reach of our praise, but 
we give thanks to Grod for the good example 
of one who, in his high office, never forgot 
the sick and suffering soldier of the Union, 
and we rejoice that he was permitted to see 
the dawn of the nation's triumphs before 
he was called to his reward. Our earnest 
prayer and hope will be that his mantle may 
have fallen upon his successor. 

Rfsohed^ Thjft the foregoing resolutions 
be published in the Sanitdvi/ Commission 
Bulletin^ the Snnifnry Rpporter, and the 
principal journals of the country. 



VISIT OF THE COMMISSION TO PRESIDENT 
JOHNSON. 

Tlie President and a delegation of the 
Board, consisting of the Treasurer, Mr. Gr. 
T. Strong, Horace Binney, Jr., Ksci., and C. 
J. Stille, Esq., by permission called on Pre- 
sident Johnson at 4 p.m., April 20, and 
presented him the respects of the Board 
and their congratulations upon his accession 
to the office of the chief magistracy. They 
conveyed to him their condolence on the 
bereavement the country has sustained in 
the decease of the late lamented President, 
whose constant sup{)ort and favor they had 
experienced during the whole of his admin- 
istration, and asked the continuance of the 
Government's countenance of their labors 
under his presidency. The President avowed 
his deep sense of the usefulness of the U. S. 
Sanitary Commission, and the obligations 
of the Government to it for its long and 
faithful services; expressed his readiness 
to do all in his power to advance and sus- 



tain its good work, and begged the delega- 
tion to convey to each and every member of 
the Board his gratitude for their good will 
toward himself and the administration, and 
his warm expression of sympathy for their 
important labors. After some general con- 
versation, leaving the most favora' le im- 
pressions of the seriousness, good sense and 
patriotic zeal of the President, the delega- 
tion withdrew with profound satisfaction at 
the interview. 



THE BULLETIN— A MONTHLY. 
At the late meeting of the Commission, 
held at Washington, it was resolved that 
the Bulletin and Reporter should be issued 
but once a month for the future. Though 
this action will deprive our friends of a 
visit every fortnight, of their welcome mes- 
sengers of tidings from the field, the wisdom 
of the arrangement will be admitted. 



THE CRISIS. 

What will the Commission do now? 
Will it wind up its affairs, make a final re- 
port of its proceedings and disband, or con- 
tinue its work ? 

These are questions which come to us 
almost every day, and while we cannot 
answer them decisively, we will offer a few 
thoughts which they suggest. 

The Commission's work is the people's 
work. It commenced with the war for pur- 
poses connected with the war, and cannot 
cease legitimately till all those purposes 
shall be accomplished. 

Its proper work is to supplement the Go- 
vernment in the care of soldiers. So long^ 
as there are soldiers who need care, and so 
long as the Government needs aid in its 
care of soldiers, there will be a demand upon 
the sympathy and support of the people; 
and so long as the sympathy and support of 
the people are pledged to this service, so 
long will they sustain the organization that 
has so faithfully represented them till this 
time. 

The return of soldiers to the common re- 
lation of citizenship again, will of necessity 
occasion some irregularity. 



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What is a soldier ? lie is always under 
orders — always the subject of military law 
and discipline. What he eats, and drinks, 
and wears, come to him through requisi- 
tions, which are dictated, signed, endorsed, 
drawn, and distributed by others. What 
he does in the way of duty, is done by orders 
through generals, colonels, captains and 
lieutenants, till they reach him ; and no 
matter what he may think, or how he may 
feel, he is bound to act in obedience to 
orders. This is among the highest charac- 
teristics of a good soldier. 

In becoming a citizen he is released from 
the restraints of military rule. He eats, and 
drinks, and wears according to his choice, 
what he buys with his own money — and 
not what another buys and orders for him. 
He thinks for himself, acts for himself, and 
is himself 0(/ain. 

But he is disabled — blind, or deaf, — has 
lost arms or legs — has shot about his person, 
or is somehow maimed for life. He went 
into the battle a whole man, and has come 
out of it a disabled man. Government gives 
him a pension for life; but it is not equal 
to his support; and if it was, the American 
soldier is too independent and thrifty to be 
a lounger in the community, if there is any 
honest employment that he is capable of 
pursuing. 

Will the Government furnish him em- 
ployment ? If not, the supplementary 
power, — the good will of the people, must. 

Here is one question to be met. The 
Sanitary Commission has anticipated it by 
the establishment already of a Bureau of 
Employment. 

If he is disabled so that he cannot work, 
will the Government give him a support ? 

If not, the supplementary power, — the 
good people, will. Here is another question 
to be met. The Sanitary Commission is 
considering it now. 

Resolved, That the President and Gene- 
eral Secretary be requested to prepare an 
address to the Branches and Aid Societies, 
stating in substance, that although there is 



reason to hope for the speedy termination of 
the present war, such termination, even if 
immediate, would leave much to be done for 
the relief of the national forces in garri- 
sons, and before they could be safely dis- 
banded and the men re-established in the 
pursuits of civil life ; that such garrisons, 
as a general rule, require more aid from the 
Commission than forces in the field, because 
more readily accessible, and that said Socie- 
ties should therefore, in the opinion of this 
Commission, not abandon their work, but 
continue the same, with additional activity, 
in view of the prospect that it may soon 
gradually cease to be necessary. 



resignation of dr. j. foster jenkins as 
general secretary of the commis. 
•sign. 

Of Dr. Jenkins we need say no more 
than that his self-sacrificing industi'y in the 
service of the Commission, and his high 
qualities as a Christian gentleman, have won 
for him the regard of all his co-workers in 
the cause, whose good wishes will follow 
him into whatever field he may enter. 

The following resolution is expressive of 
the feeling of the Commission. It was 
unanimously adopted at the late meeting 
in Washington : 

Resolved, That in accepting the resigna- 
tion of Dr. J. Foster Jenkins, the General 
Secretary of the Commission, the Sanitary 
Commission desire to express their perfect 
appreciation of his personal worth, and of 
his integrity, truthfulness of character^ and 
devotion to the interests of the Commission. 

Carried unanimously. 

Mr. John S. Blatchford was unanimously 
elected General Secretary. 



From the Soldier's Journal. 
WORKINGS OF THE U. S. SANITARY COM- 
MISSION AT CAMP PAROLE, VA. 

We have long desired to give a brief his- 
tory of the workings of the Special llelief 
Agent of the U. S. Sanitary Commission at 
this post; but have been unable to get at 
the data until now, and, even now, are com- 
pelled to omit much of interest in order to 
make thearticle suitable to our limited 
space, as well as from the reason that no regu- 
lar record of items not deemed important 
at the time has been kept. The present 



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agent, Miss Amy M. Bradley, has held tlie 
position of Special Relief Agent of this 
great Commission ever since the re-organi- 
zation of Convalescent Camp, Dec. 17, 18(J2. 
During all this time she has given the ut- 
most satisfaction to the various commanders 
of camp and hospital, and to the thousands 
of soldiers to whose wants it has been her 
daily and unceasing task to administer. Her 
labors here have been of the most exten- 
sive, and in many cases, the most compli- 
cated class; and a glance at the imperfect 
record which we are enabled to present will 
strike with surprise even those familiar with 
the grand system of the Commission which 
she represents, and others with incredulity 
that so much work could be accomplished 
by a single woman in a life-time, much less 
in a little over two years, as has been tjje 
case. These figures show more the result 
of the labor performed, than the amount of 
the labor itself. To properly show the lat- 
ter we would have to give the number of 
letters written, the number of trips to Wash- 
ington required, and many other items which 
none but the most practiced statistic com- 
piler would think of. All this required 
labor, however; and the exertions must have 
been indeed indefatigable when we reflect 
that she never had a clerk or assistant, but 
did all the writing and traveling herself 
Few have a correct idea of the amount 
of trouble and writing requisite to the 
prompt collection of a claim for back pay. 
Men generally, having any considerable 
amount of back pay due them, have been 
absent from their regiments from sickness 
or wounds, for a long time, and frequently 
are not properly accounted for on the rolls. 
All this time must be accounted for by ob- 
taining certificates from commanders of 
companies and hospitals, which are carried 
personally to the proper departments, filed, 
and a certificate for the pay drawn. This 
is the ordinary routine of collecting back 
pay, and when erroneous charges of deser- 
tion are made, the task is much more diffi- 
cult and laborious. The success with which 
our Sanitary agent has attended to such 
cases, is shown by the figures presented ; 
and in that branch alone, is a conclusive 
argument in favor of the great utility and 
usefulness of the U. S. Sanitary Commissoii. 
We do not know how many such agents 
represent the Commission, but if the hibors 
of any of them equal those of the agent at 
this post, the good accomplished must be f ir 
beyond what even the warmest friends of the 



society believe. No society has ever approx- 
imated it in goodness and usefulness. It is the 
growth ot the most gigantic war known to 
modern history, but the magnitude of its 
charities seem fully equal to the emergency 
which has called them forth. However, 
we must not now speak of the Sanitary 
Commission generally, but of one of its 
agents. 

The following briefly s'hows the workings 
of the Special Relief Agent at this post, 
from the re-organization of the Convales- 
cent Camp. Dec. 17, 18G2, to Feb. 28, 1805, 
the time of the close of Rendezvous of Dis- 
tribution. 

CONVALESCENT CAMP. 

Number of men received from Dec. 

17, 1862, to Doc. 31, 1863, 60,934 

Number discharged from Dec. 17, 

1862, to Dec. 31, 1863, 8,778 

Number assisted in settling their ac- 
counts (whose names, companies 
and regiments we find recorded in 
her books) from May 1, 1863, to 
Dec. 31, 1863, 1,830 

Average amount of money collected 

on t'^hese cases, ($100 per man,) $183,000 
[Prior to May 1, 1863, no record was 
kept of the number assisted, though very 
many of the feeblest ones were accompa- 
nied to Washington, and their accounts 
settled.] 

Number of statements taken for ar- 
rears of pay from Oct. 19, 1863, 
to Dec. 31, 1863, 93 

Amount of money collected on these 

cases, $7,185 50 

The following is the amount of stores 
distributed among the soldiers of Convales- 
cent Camp and Hospital (numberinc 60,934 
men) from Dec. 17, 1863, to Dec. 31, 1863 : 



Bed Ticks 79 

Hlauknts tJO 

Bnishes, Uair .5-1 

C.irnbs : 1,109 

Flaiiap.l, yds 4 

Head Rests 8 

.Mattresses 1 

MiKipiitoe Nettings, prs 1 

I'il.iws 84 

IMIow Oases 3-?.l 

UiiiltN IRo 

SheclM 190 

Spiltoons 12 

Tow.Us 10,ri92 

'rin(;ap» 12 

Tia Basiu.s tj 

Til read, lbs ICJ.^ 

Coats l.T, 

Drawers 1,47() 

Eye Shades 1.-.9 

Hiiiilkerchiofs 11,171 

Hats aud Caps *i 

.Mittens, prs 87.') 

Neckties 107 

I'auts 149 



Corn Starch, lbs 

Corn Meal, lbs 

Dried Fruit, Uis 

Karina, lbs 

Jellies and Preserves, 

jars 

Lemons, boxes 

Oranges, boxes 

I'ickles, gal..< 

Porter, bbls 

Potatoes, bbls 

Rum, bottles 

Syrup, bottles 

Tamarinds, (fals 

Tobacco, lbs 

Vinegar, Kaspberry, 

bottles 

Wine Foreign, bottles. 
Wine Domestic, bottles 

Whisky, bottles 

Alcohol, bottles 

Bay Hum, bottles. . . . 
Cologne, bottles...... 

Bandages, bbls 

Books, vols 



109 

7.') 

ISO 

109 

160 
4 

Vz 

14 
1 
1 
9 



28 
12 
17 

1 
.SI 

18 
1>^ 
l:!7 



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Shirts 4,8'>2 

Slippers '705 

Socks 1,950 

Suspenders, prs 6 

Vests 161 

Wrappers 24 

Apples Green, bbls. ., 1 

" Dried " 3^ 

Beef Stock, &c., lbs. . . 16 

Brandy, bottles 76 

Conden-ed Milk, lbs.. 6 

Cocoa, lbs 18 

Crackers, lbs 7,jo 

Envelopes 30,700 



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Crutches, prs 36 

Fans 200 

Flannel Bandages 7 

Hops, bbls 3^ 

Magazines 675 

Needles, papers 120 

Old Linen, bbls 3^ 

Pins, papers 12 

Pin-cushions and Nee- 
dle Books 470 

Reading Matter, boxes 1 

Soap, cakes 40 

Note Paper, reams. . . . 57>^ 

Pens and Holders 24 



The Sanitary Agent also established a 
hospital of her own upon her arrival at the 
camp, which then consisted of tents and 
huts, and continued it from Dec. 23, 1862, 
until April 1, 1868, by which time the bar- 
racks were completed, when the patients 
were removed to them. 

The mention of the above hospital were 
not properly complete without publishing a 
verbatim copy of the letter of Surgeon 
Hunt, then Surgeon in charge, to the Chief 
Special Kelief Agent at Washington : 

CONTALESCENT CaMP, Va., "1 

June 1, 18G3. / 

To Mr. Fred. N. Knapp, 

Special Relief Agent U. S Sanitary Commission. 

In reply to the suggestion that I would 
state my opinion of the services rendered in 
this camp by Miss Amy M. Bradley, of 
your Commission, I take pleasure in say- 
ing that since I reported for duty here in 
January last, Miss Bradley has been ac- 
tively and unobtrusively useful. As a mat- 
ter of negative merit, she has never inter- 
fered with duties belonging to others. Fosi- 
tiuel^, she has been of great service in at 
first maintaining a neat and comfortable 
tent hospital ; and since the erection of the 
permanent hospital, in caring for the inter- 
ests of discharged) oldiers, many of whom 
would have been subjected to serious hard- 
ships on leaving this camp, had it not been 
for her business tact and judicious friendly 
care. In various other ways she has been 
of great use to the soldiers, and I shall be 
gratified to have her remain in her present 
position. Sanpord B. Hunt, 

Surgeon U. S. V., in charge. 

Approved, SaxM'l McKelvy, 

Lieut. Col. Commanding. 
RENDEZV'OUS OF DISTRIBUTION. 

Number of men received from Feb. 

«, 1864. to Feb. 8, 1865, 108,238 

Nu iber of men received at Augur 

Hospital, 9,322 

Among these were distributed the fol- 
io. /ing articles by the Sanitary Agent : 



Bed Ticks 100 

Combs 4,1S4 

Pillows 92 

Pillow Cases 4.36 

Sheets 600 

Towels 9,631 

Thread, lbs .59 

*Coats 303 

Drawers 486 

Handkerchiefs 13,171 

Hats and Caps 36 

Mittens 3,760 

Pants 272 

Shirts 1,170 

Suspenders, prs 24 

Shoes, prs 96 

Slippers, prs 300 

Socks, prs 1,373 

Vests 203 

Wrappers 36 

Apples Dried, bbls... >^ 

Brandy, bottles 31 

Brandy Bl'kb'ry, bots 66 

Canned Meats, lbs. .. . 174 

Canned Fruit, lbs 81 

Canned Vegetables, lbs 60 

Crackr-rs, lbs 60 



Corn Starch, lbs 

Dried Fruit, lbs 

Farina, lbs 

Jellies and Preserves, 
jars 

Lemons, boxes 

Oranges, boxes 

Tobacco, lbs 

Tomatoes, lbs 

Wine Domestic, bots. . 

Whisky, bottles 

Bay Rum, bottles 

Cologne, bottles 

Bandages, bbls 

Books, vols 

Needles, papers 

Pins, papers 

Old Linen, bbls 

Pin cushions and Nee- 
dle Books 

Soap, cakes 

Tracts 

Envelopes 

Note Paper, reams 

Pencils 

Pen Holders 

Pens 



74 
10 
12 

85 

3% 
20 
72 
45 
30 
42 
30 

l>i 
13 

390 

24 

3 

1,600 

76 

500 

22,300 

1,804 
294 
912 



* The coats, pants, vests, shoes, hats, caps, 
drawers, shirts and socks were mostly dis- 
tributed amongst the men in Deserter's Di- 
vision of the llendezvous, who had no op- 
portunity of drawing these articles from 
government. 

Number of statements taken for 
arrears of pay, ending Dec. 
31, 1861, 131 

Amount collected, $11,030 13 

[During the mouths of January and Feb- 
ruary, 1864, the agent was confined to her 
bed by a serious illness, and no work was 
done other than distributing clothing by an 
orderly detailed for that purpose. During 
these two months 750 men were discharged 
the service, and were sent in ambulances 
to the Sanitary Lodge, 389 H street, Wash- 
ington, where they were assisted by Mr. W. 
K. Neal, of the Commission, in settling their 
accounts.] 

No. of statements taken for ar- 
rears of pay for the months of 
January and February, 1865, 86 

Amount collected,' $8,677 43 

Amount of monies received from 
soldiers and delivered to J. B, 
Abbott, Chief Ass't Special 
Belief Dep't, to be forwarded 
to their friends, during the 
two years ending Dec. 31, 
1864, $4,146 50 

Amounts received and fowarded 
during the mouths of Janu- 
ary and February, 1865, $779 00 
The plan and system of her work was 
organized under ten heads, which she has 
persistently followed from the commence- 
ment of her labor to tlij present time. They 
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1. Distributing clothing among the 
needy. 

2. Procuring dainties for the sick, and 
administering to their comfort by furnish- 
ing gruel, stimulants, etc. 

3. Accompanying discharged soldiers to 
Washington, and a.ssistiug them in obtain- 
ing their pay, etc. 

4. Distributiiig note paper and envelopes, 
and writing letters for the sick in hospital. 

5. Receiving and forwarding' money for 
soldiers to their friends at home. This done 
by draft without cost to the soldier. 

6. Answering letters of Inquiry to Hos- 
pital Directory. 

7. Obtaining certificates for arrears of 
pay for soldiers, and getting erroneous 
charges of desertion removed. 

8. Distributing reading matter, such as 
newspapers and periodicals throughout the 
«amp. 

9. Telegraphing to the friends of soldiers 
veiy ill in hospital. 

10. Furnishing meals to feeble soldiers 
in barracks, who could not eat the fo d pre- 
pared for stronger ones. 

During the summer of 1864, the agent 
had charge of the low diet of Augur Hospi- 
tal, and much of her attention was given 
to the sick. In September she received a' 
furlough, and visited her home in Maine, 
being the only respite she has had from her 
labors for three years. » 

The above, as we have already stated, 
briefly show the work done by a single (ujent 
of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. They 
seem like mere dry facts and statistics; but 
they will live as long as goodness and in- 
dustry are honored, and will always form a 
bright record to a life that has been given 
almost wholly to the benefit of the soldier. 



EXTRACTS FEOM LETTER BY DR J. FOSTER 
JENKINS, GENERAL SECRETARY. 

James River, April 10, 1865. 

To the Standing Committee of the U. S. 

Sanitary Commission: 

Ge.ntlemen — I am on my return to 
Washington, from a visit to City Point. I 
reached that station at 1 p.m. yesterday, 
anfl have given our work thence westerly, 
as thorough scrutiny as could be accom- 
plished by interrogation of our officers and 
others po.ssessing opportunities of observing 
it. You will be glad to hear that our sup- 
plies are, and have been, abundant from the 
betrinnino: of the late active movements. No 



embarrassment has been felt from this cause. 
There is, of essential articles, a good supply 
now on hand, and the goods about to arrive 
will make the stock complete probably for 
all this month. 

The number of our agents is ample. 
Their better organization than ever before, 
the improved degree of preparation of the 
Medical Department, and the comparatively 
moderate number of wounded in the recent 
engagements, render the present force suffi- 
cient to do what falls to our hands to "do. I 
saw the surgeon in charge of the Depot 
Hospitals, near City Point yesterday, and 
spent an hour with him. His resources 
seemed to be very large. He had de- 
spatched, the day before, the material for a 
hospital of 2,500 beds, to Burkesville, al- 
though there was a probability of finding 
not more than 1,000 patients, and with the 
hospital had sent up 26 surgeons, and was 
ready to repeat the consignment, if called 
upon. The hospital accommodation at City 
Point is 15,000 beds, and there are in hos- 
pital only 6,000.' He seems to be a genuine 
friend of the Commission, and thinks that 
it is doing its work well. He accepts its 
services gratefully where they are necessary. 

We have a storehouse at Richmond, in 
the same building with the Medical Pur- 
veyor, and are doing a* solid work, though 
as usual not a showy one. The sick are all 
rebels. At Petersburg we also have a 
strong force for the necessity, which is net 
urgent. In the field we are strong, and 
Johnson at Burkesville asks that no more 
stores be sent until further call from him. 
The performance of our proper work at and 
about Richmond is successful and credita- 
ble. Mr. Knapp, who had gone with Dr. 
McDonald on Thursday to Richmond, re- 
turned last night, and is on the way with 
me now to Washington. He reports our 
work as having been very well done at 
Wilmington. He left there on the 4th iust. 

We are just at Fortress Monroe, 4 p.m. 
I expect to be in Washington at 10 a.m. 
to-morrow — Tuesday. 

Respectfully yours, 

J. Foster Jenkins. 



THE COMMISSIONS. 

We clip the following from a Buffalo 
paper : 

The Sanitary Commission. — Mrs. 
Horatio Seymour has just recciveil the fol- 
lowing telegram from Dr. Jenkins, the 



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General Secretary of the U. S. Sanitary 
Commission : 

"Washington, April 1, 1865. 

" Agents and supplies had been placed at 
the disposal of our Inspector at City Point, 
anticipating the movement of the armies. 
Our wagons entered Richmond and Peters- 
burg with the hospital trains of our military 
forces. We have most ample supply of 
men and material at Ptichmond, City Point 
and Petersburg, and with the army in pur- 
suit of Lee. These supplies are being con- 
stantly reinforced. Every report made to 
us indicates that our work is being fully 
and efficiently carried on. 

"J. Foster Jenkins." 

The above shows that the Sanitary Com- 
mission work is now so thoroughly syste- 
matized that it may almost be regarded as a 
part of our military organization. It must 
be highly gratifying to the generous people 
who made this Society the almoners of their 
bounty, to know that the work is done so 
well. The constant and regular offerings 
of the people have placed this Society upon 
so satisfaciory a basis that it is now able to 
anticipate the wants of our soldiers. Con- 
tinued generosity on the part of its patrons 
will enable it to maintain this desirable po- 
sition, without the necessity of making any 
special ajpeal when an emergency arises. 

An Appeal from the Christian Com- 
mission. — The following dispatch was re- 
ceived yesterday. In response, the Branch 
of the Christian Commission in this city 
send to-d;iy $3,000. Will not our churches 
and communities in the city and country 
respond nobly to this last^ppeal? 

"Philadelphia, April 3, 1865. 

"Rev. S. Hunt, Secretary: — The 
battle is raging — our delegates in the field 
— minute men starting by every train — 
Treasury empty. New York and Boston 
merchants moving to-day on 'Chanee. Will 
not yours do likewise ? For how much may 
we driiw on you ? Telegraph immediately. 
Minutes are lives to-day. 

"Geo. H. Stuart, Chairman." 



EXTBACT OF A LETTER FROM CITY POINT. 

April 14, 1865. 
The Sanitary Commission at City Point 
is still the Sanitary Commission. I find 
the agents at work with earnestness and 
devotion. The hospitals are not crowded, 
as they have sometimes been, but they are 
well kept and the men are cheerful. Our dit- 



tributors are known every where, and treat- 
ed with respect and consideration. 

Besides many goods things that they have 
done in the ordinary line of their legitimate 
service, they have established schools for 
soldiers, which have been very successful. 
Many of our men have come into the ser- 
vice without the knowledge of letters, and 
others with but very limited knowledge. 
The Commission has been engaged in the work 
of instruction, and with the most satisfactory 
results. They have also furnished books for 
" the contraband schools," as they are called, 
which are connected with the contraband 
camp and are objects of unusual interest. 

The work among refugees is also consid- 
erable. Last evening there were housed 
in " our old barge" several families of wo- 
men and children who were seeking friends 
and freedom among Northern Unionists. 
Some of them were intelligent people, and 
excited much interest; others, equally deser- 
ving of sympathy and care, were not so well 
trained and educated, but as appreciative of 
attention and kindness. 

At Petersburg and Richmond the work 
is under way. Homes are being established 
and much solid comfort afforded. Burkes- 
ville station is supplied by our train, and 
active agencies are established there. 

The flag of the Commission waves where 
the flag of our country is, and where our 
soldiers are, there are our stores and agents. 

It is to be hoped that our people will con- 
tinue their organizations and their cff"orts. 
Troops are coming in from the North by 
the transport load, and tens of thousands 
of rebels, wounded and sick, are depen- 
dent and thrown upon the care of Gov- 
ernment, and swelling the list of those who 
claim the benefactions of our people. 

We go to Richmond to-morrow, and will 
write you from there. I hope to obtain a know- 
ledge of its true situation, of which I will 
advise you. We shall also visit Petersburg 
and other important points along the line. 
J. Parrish 



IN AID OF THE CHIOAGO FAIR TO BE HELD 
MAY 30TH. 

Women's Penn. Branch, April 17, 1865. 

It has been suggested to the Philadelphia 

Committee in aid of the Chicago Fair, by 

one of the country auxiliary societies of this 

State, that these associates of the Sanitary 

Commission would be stimulated to aid the 

Fair if some slight premium were ofiered to 

encourage exertion. 



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117T 



, We therefore propose to give to every so- I 
ciety sendius: articles or money amouuting 
to one tuudred dollars (6100), the elegant 
bronze medal commemorative of the^ Chi- 
cago Fair, now being struck at the mint. 

To the society in each county sending the 
largest contribution beyond the above sum, 
an American flag will be given in size and 
value proportionate to the amount contribu- 
ted. 

Boxes can be directed to the rooms of the 
U. S. Sanitary Commission, 1307 Chestnut 
street, marked >' For the Chicago Fair." 

In all cases an invoice marked at the 
selling prices must accompany each pack- 
ao-e. All communications on the subject 
can be addressed to 

Mrs. Thomas P. James, 

President, 
f Or 400 S. 9th street., Phila. 

Miss Anna P. Stevenson, 
Secretary and Treasurer, 
1006 Clinton street. 

PETKOLEUM FOR THE SANITARY. 

New York, April 8, 1865. 

To THE Rev. Dr. Bellows : 

President of U. S. Sanitary Commission. 

Dear Sir -.—For the purpose of answer- 
ing the great number of inquiries made 
daily at our office, as to the " modus ope- 
randi" of obtaining Petroleum, we have 
thought it worth while to cause to be con- 
structed a full sized working model of an 
oil well, with engine, derrick, tank, drills, 
and indeed all the accompaniments com- 
plete, a counterpart of which was contri- 
buted by our office to the National Celebra- 
tion of March 6, and now on exhibition 
at No. 518 West 22nd street, near Tenth 
avenue, between the hours of one and four, 
p. M. To the majority of men the subject 
is of sufficient interest to render a visit, with 
their families, to the "Oil Well" profitable. 

We have issued tickets of admission at 
25 cents each, obtainable at our office, and 
beg your acceptance of the proceeds for the 
benefit of the " Sanitary Commission ;" aA 
association, that by its noble care of our 
sick and suff"ering soldiers, has earned the 
gratitude of every Union man. 

Sincerely congratulating you upon our 
recent glorious victories, 

We remain, Sir, yours very respectfully, 
W. W. Clarke & Co. 

New York, AprU 12, 1865. 

W. W. Clarke & Co. : 

Gentlemen — I accept very gratefully 



on behalf of the U. S. Sanitary Commis- 
sion, your humane and patriotic offer, to 
turn over to our treasury the proceeds of 
the exhibition of your model of an Oil Well 
and all its accompaniments, complete. 

We have "struck ile" in a good many 
places without "boring" the public over- 
much. The domain from which our oil has 
flowed, the national sympathy and gratitude, 
has not proved a very rocky soil, and our 
machinery has been comparatively cheap 
and simple. Yet the wells have thrown, if 
not "a hundred feet in height and 1,600 
barrels daily," as high as the wounds and 
sorrows of our stricken soldiers, and some- 
times at the rate of 1,600 boxes (a much 
more astonishing feat) per month. 

They threw in one week 700 tons of stores 
into Fredericksburg, $70,000 of stores into 
Gettysburg in four weeks, and have thus 
far furnished the army and navy with about 
ten millions of dollars worth of extra com- 
fort. They are throwing this minute into 
Richmond, City Point, Newbern, Wilming- 
I ton, Goldsboro', the Shenandoah, Nashville, 
Knoxville, New Orleans, and fifty other 
I stations, whatever the knowledge and hu- 
manity of our medical corps ask from us, 
and there is no immediate prospect that the 
" Oil " will give out. We have not recently 
found it necessary to "bull" our stock, nor 
force it on the market. Sober purchasers 
seem to understand its value, and invest 
without noise. 

Meanwhile we rejoice that Petroleum 
wishes to sanctify itself by pouring some 
percentage of its flow, into the wounds of 
our noble army of martyrs. It has made 
fortunes, lighted cottages and cities, cooked 
dinners and run steamships, lubricated mills 
and trains, contended with mining stocks, 
cotton and railroad shares in city roads, for 
the mastery on the exchange. It now offers 
itself as a medicine for army wounds and 
hospital gangrene. We shall be glad totry 
it. May your oil well go into immediate 
and most popular operation. 

If all who have invested in Oil Stocks 
and expect to leave fortunes to their children, 
will only go and take their offspring just to 
see how those fortunes are jnadr,, I cannot 
doubt that your receipts and ours will be 
sufficient to reward your utmost expecta- 
tions, and to meet our largest requirements. 
i With grateful respect, 

I remain, gentlemen, yours, truly, 
Heney W. Bellows, 

President. 



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SPECIAL RELIEF DEPAHTMENT. CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF NINETEEN 



PLACES. 



Baltimore. 

•'The Home,"..... 



Boston. 

' Soldiers' Home, 



Buffalo, N. Y. 

" Soldiers' Rest,". . 



Oamp Nelson, Ky. 

"Soldiers' Home,"... 



Cairo. 111. 

"Soldiers' Home,". 

Columbns, 0. 

" Soldiers' Home,". 

Detroit, Micb. 

" Soldiers' Home, '. 



.Teffersonvillc, Ind. 

"Soldiers' Home,"... 



LouisTiUe, Ry. 

"Soldiers' Home," ... 

Memphis, Tenn. 

" Soldiers' Home,". . . 

Nashville. 

"Soldiers' Home,"... 

New Orleans, la. 

" Soldiers' Home,". . . 

Padueah, Ry. 

" Soldiers' Home,". . . 

Portsmouth, Va. 

"Soldiers' Home,"... 

Washing:ton, D. C. 

"The Home," 

Lodge No- 4 

Lodge No. 6 



Home for Soldiers' 
wives and mothers. . 



6 
2 

12 

104 

664 

107 

7 

86 

350 

294 

,168 

62 

163 

5 



1 

5o 
73 

162 
2 

126 

2,959 

37 

910 
76 
74 



3,088 4,545 



594 88 1.609 



28S 
22 
95 



18 

804 



21, 3 

4'.. 



4 12 
2 1 



6 

1.023 



10 

3 

7 

183 

80 

174 

417 

101 

1,227 

72 

689 

12 

32 

1 



3,122 370 



925 



& 

55 
14 

110 

31 
108 

34 
9 

22 
138 

33 
115 

49 



136 .... 

247 1 
225 



19 ..., 



1,3.541 26 



131 

31 

1,333 

5 

185 

2,860 

47 

1,519 

19 

23 



6,306 



Soldiers' Lodge, Alexandria, Va. District of Columbia, 31 : Michigan, 1 : New York, 9 : Penn- 
sylvania, 107 : Wisconsin, 2 : U. S. Regulars, 2 : Soldiers, 152 : Relatives of Soldiers, 7. Whole num- 
ber, 159. Lodgings, 344 ; Meals, 1,036. (Included in above totals.) 



THE WOEK OF NINETEEN HOMES. 

The above table presents the statistics of 
the Special Relief work done in nineteen 
Homes, Lodges, or Rests of the United 
States Sanitary Commission, situated in six- 
teen different places, during the month of 
March. 

The returns from the Homes at Annapo- 
lis and Cincinnati, the Lodge at Ilarrisburg, 
and Lodge No. 5 at Washington, have not 
been received at this office in time for inser- 
tion; so that the table does not fully sot forth 



the work of the Commission in this direction. 
36,577 soldiers, from thirty-four states, 
have been cared for free of charge ; 266 re- 
latives of soldiers, as a general rule nursing 
their sons or husbands sick in hospital, have 
found food and lodging ; while 586 refugees, 
fleeing from their homes to escape the bar- 
barity of their Southern friends, have found 
a home among strangers. The total number 
of persons entertained is 37,429. To these 
38,144 nights lodgings and 149,801 meals 
have been criven. 



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1179 



"HOMES," 


« 


LODGES," 


AND "RESTS," FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 1865. 












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a. 


a 


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•a 














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> 

a 

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a 

1 I 




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o 

a 
> 


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1 

o 


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t. 

1 


a 

I 

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2 

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1 


1 

3 


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a 

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■0 


<^ 


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1 


•6 

a 
c 

3 


.a 
P 




34 


6 11 




2 


.... 5 


3 


4 1 


4 




130 


2 


334 


65 


42 


441 


390 


1,651 


156 


18 


76 


6 


2 




4 


V 


1 


61 1' 


206 




333 




2,404 


7 




2,411 


1,683 


4,304 


1,634 


310 


143 


5 






2 




3 


8 . 


14 


11 




.... 


201 




1 


202 


260 


849 


131 


72 






13 

66 












12 

7 41 


22 




4Sj 
9 


1,324 
3,005 


8 


114 


1,446 
3,005 


1,542 
1,729 


4,235 
8,201 


36 
2.J3 


15 

402 


1,273 
10 


14 








7 1,397 


15 


61 


60 






122 . 


51 

9 

. 123 












2,270 

696 

1,036 


8 


3 


2,270 

607 

1,036 


2,270 

1,229 

148 


5,884 
4,614 
3,356 


1,474 
449 

426 


349 
87 
122 


69 
396 


17 . 
62 . 


. 49 
. 76 


1 


78 
39 


2 


6S 


2.0 











.. 637 
21 








. 370 
. 290 


233 . 
1 . 


. 134 
2 


1,622 
3 


60 


2 


12,581 
1,042 


3 


35 

8 


12,616 
1,053 


6,975 
977 


40,343 
3,124 


716 
168 


330 
164 


11,594 
695 


1 




1 




224 

1 


.. 1,233 











761 






89 




8,040 


47 




8,087 


7,519 


24,291 


2,164 


4,211 


1,685 


36 12 




47 
53 


24 


2 
1 


g 


1 


134 
12 


674 

€06 






674 
606 


4,015 
1,200 


16,137 
5,823 


44 


356 


274 


12 

188 


3' 5 

10| 3 




3 

10 

23 
















207 

959 
1,118 

28 


7 
114 


51 

""5 

260 

67 


26^ 

959 

1,123 

288 

181 


504 

3,599 
3,133 

627 


1,481 

8,397 

14,235 

600 

1,231 


33 

5.58 
555 


18 

189 
668 


156 
212 


19 
4 ] 


34 

5 27 




















92 




2d 


3 




32 


2 1 




2 
.Oil 


148 : 


4 
!0 2,989 












l,6r)0 


128 2,065 


|36 


i,isn:' 


26 56r 


1,67( 


730 


73S 


36,677 


26(3 


580 


37,429138,144 


149,801 


8,797 


7,211 


16,583 



It is not easy for the mind to realize all 
that is meant by these figures. Thirty-eight 
thousand men is a very respectable corps ; 
many of the armies which have fout^ht and 
won splendid battles, have not greatly ex- 
ceeded this number. And it must be re- 
membered that this relief has come to 
men who needed it — at the right time, in 
the right place, and in the right way. 



EELATION OF SANITARY COMMISSION TO 
EEBEL CIVILIANS. 

Extract from minutes of Board, Wash- 
ington, April 27, 1865. 

Rewlvcd, That the rendering of aid and 
the issuing of supplies to the inhabitants of 



rebel towns and cities when occupied by 
the National Army, is no part of the legiti- 
mate work of the Commission, and that 
such relief is to be extended only to loyal 
citizens, or to such as shall have taken the 
oath of allegiance to the United States, and 
then in cases of absolute necessity or for the 
preservation of life, during such short period 
as may elapse between the occupation of 
such town or city and the establishment of 
the Government system of supply, and only 
when such relief can be extended without 
prejudice to the National Army hospitals. 



List of Special Relief Stations.— 
We call the attention of Special Relief 



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Agents, to the new list of " Soldiers' 
Homes and Lodges," and '' Special Relief 
Officers," page 1182, for the purpose of 
having them forward to this office notifica- 
tions of such facts as will keep the list up 
to the times. 



THE SANITARY COMMISSION. 

The eventful week in the experience of 
the armies of the James and the Potomac 
has found the Sanitary Commission prepared 
for its proper work. For a month past 
agents and supplies have been quietly but 
steadily accumulating at convenient points, 
in ancicipation of the movement that has 
resulted so gloriously to our arms. The 
wagon trainsof the Commission entered both 
Richmond and Petersburg in company with 
our victorious troops, and advices are re- 
ceived that the section of the army now in 
pursuit of Lee is fully attended by both 
relief agents and supplies. Over one hun- 
dred experienced and well trained men are 
now at work in this department ; and when 
we consider that this organized band had 
its disposal on the 4th instant a supply of 
stores " sufficient to meet all necessary de- 
mands," and that such supply has been 
since increased by the arrival at City Point 
of two schooners loaded with the proper 
material, it will readily appear that the well 
earned reputation of the Sanitary Commis- 
sion for timely preparation and efficiency 
in the field is being now fully justified. — 
Washington Chronicle. 



ACCOUNT OF " LITTLE ACORN FAIR," YIELD- 
ING $4,000. 

In compliance with your request that I 
should furnish you with some particulars of 
the Fair of " The Little Acorns," I proceed 
to do so as briefly as possible. The project 
was started "in aid of the Sanitary," by six 
little girls, all under eleven years of age. 
These children evinced so much energy and 
perseverance that their older friends be- 
came interested, and came to their aid with 
liberality and kindness. A few of the 
Cuban merchants in Havana and Matanzas 
responded handsomely to the appeal made 
to them for money, &c. 

After two months of industry the chil- 
dren's Fair was held in the last week in 
June, and lasted three days. " The Little 
Acorns" were successful beyond their 
hopes, being able to feel that they had 
cleared ^5,000 for the Sanitary, S4,000 of 
which was immediately paid over to the 



Ladies' Sanitary Committee of Portland, 
and $80 subsequently. 

The residue of the amount raised by their 
efforts was retained by one of the ladies of 
the Advisory Committee, and by her dis- 
tributed toother objects in the city. Hoping 
that these facts may be what you required, 
I remain, very respectfully yours, 
Mary Neal Sherwood, 

Portland, January, 1865. 



METHODIST EPISCOPAL CONFERENCES. 

. Rev. Andrew Cather, one of our agents, 
has just returned from visiting the Provi- 
dence, New England, Troy, and New York 
Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, lately holding their annual sessions. 
At each one of them he was very kindly re- 
ceived, and his representations of the six 
principal departments of the Sanitary Com- 
mission's work were heard with marked at- 
tention. Each one of the Conferences passed 
resolutions commending the Commission to 
the liberality of the people, and expressing 
their purpose to co-operate with it in its 
noble efforts. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

CORRESPONDEUr;!?. 

Newbern, N. C, by J. W. Page 1153 

Wilmington, N. C, by G. B. Page 11. ")6 

Annapolis, bv Mrs. H IKil 

Cairo, 111., by C N. Shipman •. 116.3 

Vicksburg, Miss, by J G. Brown 1163 

Testimonials of Surgeons Henry W. Davis and Sol. 

B. Wolff 1155 

Armies before Richmond, by Dr. J. Foster Jenkins, 

Gen. Sec 1168 

James River, by J. Foster Jenkins, Gen. Sec 1175 

Letter from City Point, by Dr. Parrish 1176 

Reports. 
Woman's Central Association of Relief, by Louisa 

Lee Schuyler 1160 

Departments of Missis.sippi and Arkansas, by Beuj. 

Woodward 1 164 

Knoxville, Tenn, by M. C. Reed 1166 

Leavenworth, Kansas, by J. R Brown 1167 

Nicfeteen Houses, Lodges, and Rests 1178 

Miscellaneous. 

Starved to Death, by Minnie Mintwood 1153 

A Week in Annapolis, by Mrs. H 1161 

Supplies, from Sanitary Reporter.^ •« 1163 

Andersonville Prisonei's .'. 1163 

Departments of Mississippi and Arkansas, fron San- 

tary Reporter 1164 

Explosion of steamer Eclipse, from Cincinnati Gaz. 1165 

The Far West 1167 

Aid to Victims of Southern Barbarity 1168 

Official action of Commission on the death of Presi- 
dent Lincoln 1170 

Visit of Commission to President Johnson 1171 

Workings of U. S. Saa. Com. at Camp Parole, from 

Soldiers' Journal ' 1172 

Relation of San. Com. to rebel civilians 1172 

The Commissions 1175 

In aid of the Chicago Fair 1176 

Petroleum for the San. Com 1177 

EDITORI.iL. 

President Lincoln 1169 

The Bulletin— a Monthly 1171 

The Crisis , 1171 

Resignation of Dr. J. Foster Jenkins, Gen. Sec 1172 

The Work of Nineteen Homes 1178 

List of Special Relief Stations 1179 



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1181 



PROTECTIVE 

OF THB 

U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION. 
OflBce : No. 1307 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

All the papers and correspondence required 
to procure Pensions, Bounty and Buck Pay, and 
Prize Money for discharged soldiers and sailors, 
and for the relatives of soldiers and sailors dying 
in the service of the United States, prepared and 
forwarded, and the proceeds of all claims, when 
collected, remitted to the parties entitled, //-ee of 
charge. 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

WILLIAil M. TILGHMAN, Chairman. 

Horace Bin.vey, Jr., Robert M. Lewis, 

Alexander Brown, George M. Conarroe, 

Hon. J. I. Clark Hare, Charles J. Stille, 

William Welsh, George D. Pakrirh, 

William L. Rehn, H. Lenox Hodge, M.D., 

George Trott, Atuerton Blight. 

H. Lenox Hodge, M.D., Examining Surgeon. 
Edward A. Smith M.D., Assistant Surgeon. 
W. N. ASH.MAN, Solicitor. 
Jas. W. Hazlehdrst, Assistant Solicitor. 

PROTECTIVE 

OF THE 

U. S. SANITARY COMMISSIOx\. 
OFFICE, 35 CHAMBERS STREET, 

JVEJ'^r YOUIC. 

President. 

Lieut.-Gen. WINFIELD SCOTT. 

Vice-Presidents. 

Hon. Hamilton Fisk, Admiral Dupont, 

John J. Cisco, Esq., Rud. A. Witthaus, Esq 

Treasurer. — Robert B. Mintuhn, Esq. 

Directors. 



Hons. E. D. Morgan, 
George Opdyke, 
Hiram Barney, 
Jas W. Beekman, 

H. W. Bellows, D.D., 

John Jacob Astor, 

James Brown, 

William H. Aspinwall, 

James Gallatin, 



Howard Potter, 
William E. Dodge, jr., 
Theodore Roosevelt, 
Peter Cooper, 
George Bancroft, 
Daniel Lord, 
Wilson G. IIdnt, 
Robert L. Stdart, 
Alfred Pell. 



THE U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION 

Was constituted by the Secretary of War in June, 
1861, in accordance with the recommendation of 
the Surgeon-General of the United States Army, 
and its appointment and plan of organization were 
approved by the President of the United States, 
Its present organization is as follows : 

H. W. Bellows, D.D., New York. 
A. D. Bache, LL.D., Washington, D. C, 
F. L. Olmsted, California. 
George T. Strong, Esq., New York. 
Elisha Harris, M.D., New York. 
W. H. Van Buren, M.D., New York. 
Wolcott Gibbs, M.D., Cambridge, Mass. 
S. G. Howe, M.D., Boston, Mass. 
C. R. Agnew, M.D., New York. 
J. S. Newberry, M.D., Cleveland, Ohio. 
Rt. Rev. T. M. Clark, Providence, R. I. 
Hon. R. W. Burnett, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Hon. Mark Skinner, Chicago, 111. 
Hon. Joseph Holt, Washington, D. C. 
Horace Binney, jr., Philadelphia, Penna. 
Rev. J. H. Heywood, Louisville, Ky. 
I J. Huntington Wolcott, Boston, Mass. 
Charles J. Stille, Philadelphia, Peniia. 
Ezra B. McCagg, Chicago, IlL 

OFFICERS. 

H. W. Bellows, D.D., President. 
A. D. Bache, LL.D., Vice-President. 
George T. Strong, Treasurer. 
J. Foster Jenkins, M.D., General Secretary. 
J. S. Newberry, M.D., Associate Secretary. 
standing committee. 

George T. Strong. 

Wolcott Gibbs, M.D. 

Charles J. Stille. 



Apply in person or by letter, to 

HENRY GREENFIELD, Secretary, 
35 Chambers Street, New York. 

OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 

\st. To secure the soldiers and sailors and their 
families, any claims for pensioTis, pay, or bounty, 
etc., without cost to the claimant. 

2d. To protect soldiers or sailors and their famiUes 
from imposture and fraud. 

3d. To prevent false claims from being made 
against the Government. 

'ith. To give gratuitous advice and information to 
soldiers and sailors or their families needing it. 



Henry W. Bellows, D.D 
Wm. H. Van Buren, M.D 
C. R. Agnew, M.D. 



HOSPITAL DIRECTORY. 

The Sanitary Commission has made arrange- 
ments for supplying information gratuitously, 
with regard to patients in all the United States 
General Hospitals. 

For information relative to patients in the Hos- 
pitals in New York, New- Jersey, the New England 
States, Eastern Virginia, Maryland, District of Co- 
lumbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida 
and Louisiana, address "Office of Sanitary Com- 
mission, Washington, D. C." 

For the Hospitals in Pennsylvania, address 
"Office of Sanitary Commission, No. 1307 Chest- 
nut Street, Philadelphia." 

For the Hospitals in Western Virginia, Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, Ten- 
nessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, address " Office 
Sanitary Commission, Louisville, Ky." 

In all cases the name, rank, company, and regi- 
ment of the person inquired for should be given, 
and where he was when last heard from. If the 
application is by letter, the answer will be sent 
by return of mail ; if in person, it will be answered 
at once ; or if by telegraph, an answer will be re- 
turned immediately at the inquirer's expense. 

J8^»Soldiers' Aid Societies, clergymen, editors, 
and others, can scarcely serve the cause of hu- 

imanity more effectually than by frequently and 
widely disseminating a knowledge of the above, 
among those who have friends in the army. 



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SUPPLY DEPARTMENT. 

The Sanitary Commission, under special au- 
thority of the President of the United States, 
maintains an extensive system of agencies for 
securing the safe conveyance to, and distribution 
of, goods put in its charge for the sick and 
wounded at points where they are most wanted. 
It operates with equal care and generosity at all 
points — at New Orleans and at Washington, 
before Charleston and at Chattanooga — its dis- 
tributions being governed by a comparison of the 
wants of the patients in all cases. The following 
is a list of depots, to which auxiliary societies 
and all disposed to aid the sick and wounded, 
without reference to States or.localities, but sim- 
ply to their relative necessity for assistance, are 
invited to send, their offerings : 

DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST. 

CENTRAL DEPOTS OF COLLECTION. 

U. S. San. Com., No. 18 West St., Boston, Mass. 
U. S. San. Com., Nos. 10 & 11 Cooper Union, 
New York. 

U. S. San. Com., State House, New Haven,Conn. 
U. S. San. Com., 1307 Chestnut St., Philada. 

DEPOTS OP DISTRIBUTION. 

U. S. San. Com., 244 F St., Washington, D. C. 

U. S. San. Com. Camp Distribution, Va. 

U. S San. Com., 46 Sharp St., Baltimore, Md. 

U S. Sanitary Commission, Harper's Ferry, Va. 

U. S. Sanitary Commission, Annapolis, Md. 

U. S. Sanitary Commission, Camp Parole, Md. 

U. S. Sanitary Commission, Norfolk, Va. 

U. S. Sanitary Commission, City Point, V.a. 

U. S. Sanitary Commission, Newberne, N."^ C. 

U. S. Sanitary Commission, Beaufort, S. C. 

U. S. Sanitary Commission, New Orleans, La 

Temporary Depots for distribution are estab- 
lished from time to time as necessities of the 
service require. 

DEPARTMENT OF THE WEST. 

GENTRAIi DKPOTS OF COLLECTION. 

U. S. San. Com., corner Vine and Sixth Sts., 
Cincinnati, 0. 

U. S. San. Com., No. 95 Bank St., Cleveland, 0. 

U. S. San. Com., No. 66 Madison St., Chicago, 
111. 

U. S. San. Com., No. 2 Adam's Block, Buffalo, 
N. Y. 

U. S. San. Com., No. 59 Fourth St., Pittsburgh, 
Penna. 

U. S. San. Com., No. 32 Lamed St., Detroit, 
Mich. 

U. S. San. Com., Columbus, 0. 

U. S. San. Com., Fifth St., Louisville, Ky. 

The Commission receives no pecuniary aid 
whatever from the Government, and is wholly 
dependent on the voluntary contributions of the 
public for the means of sustaining its operations. 
Contributions to the Treasury are solicited, and 
may be transmitted to George T. Strong, Esq., 
Treasurer, 68 Wall Street, N. Y. 

SPECIAL RELIEF DEPARTMENT. 

F. N. Knapp, Supt., Washington, D. C. 

J. B. Ab bott, Chief Assistant, Washington, D C 



"SOLDIERS' HOMES" AND "LODGES." 

[Objects. Terap(||iry aid and protection, — • 
food, lodging, care, &c., — for soldiers in transitu, 
chiefly the discharged, disabled, and furloughed.] 

Alexandria, Va. "Alexandria Lodge." 
Orange and Alexandria Railroad Station. J. B. 
Holt, Superintendent. 

Annapolis, Md. "Home for Soldiers' 
Wives and Mothers " Mrs. Hopes Sayres, Matron. 

Baltimore, Md. " Soldiers' Home." No. 
62 Conway Street. A. E. Hastings, Supt. 

"Soldiers' Lodge." Opposite Philadelphia, 
Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Station. 
, Superintendent. 

Boston, Mass. " Soldiers' Home." No. 
T6 Kingston Street. Charles F. Mudge, Supt., 
near Boston and Worcester Railroad Depot. 

Buffalo, N. Y. " Soldiers' Rest." Ex- 
change Strett, opposite Central Railroad Depot. 
Mrs. 11. Indevine, Matron. 

Cairo, 111. " Soldiers' Home." C. N. Ship- 
man, Superintendent. 

Camp Nelson, Ky. " Soldiers' Home." 
Thomas Butler, Superintendent. 

Cincinnati, O. Soldiers' Home." Third 
Street. Gol. G. W.D. Andrews, Superintendent. 
Cleveland, Ohio. " Soldiers' Home." 
Joseph Jerome, Superintendent. 

Columbus, Ohio. " Soldiers' Home." T. 
E. Botsford, Superintendent. 

Detroit, Michigan. " Soldiers' Home." 
No. 81 Jefferson Avenue. 

Harrisburg, Pa. Near the Railroad Depot. 
"Soldiers' Lodge." W. H. Hadley, Supt. 

Jeffersonville, Indiana. " Soldiers' 
Home." New Market Street, near the Depot. E. 
T. Smith, Superintendent. 

Louisville, Ky. " Soldiers' Home." V. 
Scott, Superintendent. 

Memphis, Tenn. "Soldiers' Lodge." 
Near landing, 0. W. Christy, Superintendent and 
Relief Agent. 

Nashville, Tenn. " Soldiers' Home." 
Captain I. Brayton, Superintendent. 

New Orleans, La. " Soldiers' Home." 
Corner Magazine and Julia Streets. Sumner 
Balhird, Superintendent. 

New York City. " Discharged Soldiers' 
Home." No. 45 Grove Street, near Blecker. 
, Superintendent. 

Paducah, Ky. " Soldiers' Home." E. D. 
Way, Superintendent. 

Portsmouth, Va. "Soldiers' Home." John 
Alcooke, Superintendent. 

Washington, D. C. "The Home." No. 
374 North Capitol Street. J. B. Clark, Supt. 

" Home for Soldiers' Wives and Mothers. 
No. 380 North Capitol Street. J. B. Clark, Supt., 

"Lodge No. 4. No. 389 H Street. , Supt. 

" Lodge No. 5." Maryland Avenue, near Wash- 
ington & Alexandria R. R. Station. , Supt. 

" Lodge No. 6." Foot of Sixth Street. Ho.v- 
ard McPlierran, Superintendent. 

SPECIAL RELIEF OFFICES. 

[Objects. — To give aid in procuring pay, pen- 
sions, bounty, prize money, arrears of pay and 
bounty, and other claims upon government. To 



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supply clothing, hospital delicacies, crutches, 
&c. To give transportation, information, &c.] 

Alexandria, Va. Office in Soldiers' Lodge, 
Orange and Alexandria Railroad Station. J. B. 
Holt,Agent. . 

Annapolis, Md. Office of United States 
Sanitary Commission. Major F. C. Howes, Agent. 

Baltimore, Md. United States Sanitary 
Commission, No. 4G South Sharpe Street. J. T. 
Pancoast, Agent. 

Boston, Mass. United States Sanitary Com- 
mission, No. 7(3 Kingston Street. 

Buffalo N. Y. Branch United States San- 
nitary Commission, Adams' Block, No. 209 
Washington Street. 

Cairo, 111. Office in "Soldiers' Home." C. 
N. Shipman, Agent. 

Camp Nelson. Ky. Office in " Soldiers' 
Home." Thomas Butler, Agent. 

Chattanooga, Tenn. United States Sani- 
tarj' Commission. 

Chicago, 111. United States Sanitary Com- 
mission. 

<%Cincinnati, Ohio. United States Sanitary 
Commission, corner Vine and Sixth Streets. 

Cleveland, Ohio. Branch United States 
Sanitary Commission 

Detroit, Mich. United States Sanitary 
<;!ommission. No. 32 Larned Street. 

Dubuque, la. United States Sanitary Com- 
mission. Rev E. S. Morris, Agent. 

Harrisburg, Pa. Office in " Soldiers' 
Lodge." W. II. Hadley, Agent. 

•lefiersonville, Ind. Office in " Soldiers' 



Home," New Market Street, near railroad depot, 
E. T. Smith, Agent. 

Knoxville, Tenn. United States Sanitary 
Commission. 

Leavenworth, Kansas. United States 

Sanitary Commission. J. R. Brown, Agent. 

Louisville, Ky. United States Sanitary- 
Commission, Fifth Street. 

Memphis, Tenn. Office in "Soldiers' 
Lodge," upar landing. C. W. Christy, Agent. 

Milwaukie, Wis. Mrs. Colt. 

Nashville, Tenn. United States Sanitary 
Commission. E. Root, Agent. 

New Orleans, La. Special Relief Office, 
United States Sanitary Commission, No. 96 Julia 
Street. 0. C. Bullard, Agent. 

New York City, N. Y. " Special Relief 
Office," Cooper Union, No. 10 Third Avenue. 
Mrs. W. P. Griffin, Chairman Special Relief 
Committee. 

Padueah, Ky. Office in " Soldiers' Home." 
E. D. Way, Agent. 

Philadelphia, Pa. United States Sanitary 
Commission, 1307 Chestnut Street, third story, 
back. Colonel Soest, Agent. 

Portsmouth, Va. Office in "Soldiers' 
Home." John Alcooke, Agent. 

Vicksburg, Miss. United States Sanitary 
Commission. J. G. Brown. 

Washington, D. C. "Special Relief Of- 
fice," No. 389 H Street, between 13th and 14th 
Streets. J. B Abbott, Chief Assistant. 

Wheeling, Va. United States Sanitary 
Commission. 



BRANCH, 

No. 744 Broadway, 

NEW YORK. 



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BRANCH, 

No. 19 Green Street, 

BOSTON, Mass. 



PHIL.ADEJL,PHTA, 

Important Information for Soldiers and Sailors who have lost Limbs, 

The "Palmer" Arm and Lbs are now furnished for the mutilated herofes of the Army and Navy, and I have the 
pleasure of presenting extracts from official letters from the Surgeon-General, which will gratify numerous applicants, 
who, in the past, have been led to believe that they must accept an inferior limb, or have no aid from Government. 

Subqeon-General's Office, 
Washington City, D.C, Dec. 12, 1863. 
Sir :— The Board of Medical Officers assembled in the City of Philadelphia, for the purpose of examining the diflerent 
model.s submitted 5 them for an Artificial Arm, having reported ******** 
In compliance with the kecom.mendation of the Board, when a soldier mat desire to purchase "the morb 

ELEOANT AND EXPENSIVE ARM OF PaI.MER," FIFTT DOLLARS WILL BE ALLOWED TOWARDS PAYMENT FOR TBT .SAME. 

By order of the Acting Surgeon-General. C. H. CKAME, Surgeon U.S.A. 

StlROKON-GENERAL's OFFICE, 

Washington City, D.C, Sept 20. 1S64. 
Sir:— In answer to your letter 6f the Ist inst., I am directed to inform you, that the Report and lecoiameiidation of 
the Medical Board recpntly assembled in New York, to examine samples and models of Artificial Limbs, is not designed 
to supersede the recominecdation of the former Board, so far as regards the Limbs manl'FACtdred BY YOU. 
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, by order of the Surgeon-Ceneral, 

W. C. SfENCER, Assistant Surgeon U.S.A. 
To B. FRANK. PALMER, LL.D., 744 Broadway, New York. 



The Best PALMER LEG is famished THE SOLDIER FREE 

The Best PALMER ARM. for a SMALL ADVANCE. 

The Best LINCOLN " GOVERNMENT" ARM. FREE. 
Prices of the PALMER LIMBS not raised to OFFICERS and CIVILIANS. 

Apply in person, or by letter, at either of the offices Address 

B. FRANK. PALMER, LL.D., 

Frtnident American Artificial Limb Co. 



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Adapted to every 'bi'aneli of bixsinesH. 

MANUFACTURED ONLY BY THE ORIGINAL INVENTORS, 

E. & T. FAIKBANKS & CO., St, Johnsbury, Vermont, 

PRINCIPAL WAREHOUSES : 

FAIRBANKS & CO., No. 252 Broadway, New York. 
FAIRBANKS & BRO^A^N, No. 118 MiJk Street, Boston. 
FAIRBANKS, GREENLEAF & CO., No. 172 Lake Street, Chicago. 
FAIRBANKS & EWING, Masonic Hall, Philadelphia. 
FAIRBANKS & CO., No. 246 Baltimore Street, Baltimore. 

Descriptive Circulars furnished or mailed to any address, on application to either of tJie above. 



486 BROADWAY 



ESTABLISHED i860. 

AND 441 BROOME ST. 

SEWING IVIACHIIMES 

OF THE MOST APPROVED MAKES, SUCH AS THE 
WHEELER & WILSOnf, 

GROVER & B.IKER, 

WIEECOX & GIBBS, 

A. B. UOWE, 

SINGER A^D OTHERS. 

TO RE]\T AND 

FOR SALE, 

At MANUFACTURERS' PRICES, and with the same privileges. Instruction THOROUGH and 

gratis, at the 

N. Y. SEWINC MACHINE EMPORIUM, 

Corner Broadway and Broome Street, New York. 

V. W. WICKES, Jr., Proprietor, 

486 Broadway, Tip Sta||[s.g I 













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